Injunctions in UK Law

  • Hadmor Productions Ltd and Others v Hamilton and Another
    • House of Lords
    • 01 Enero 1982
    ... ... 2 Together with the writ, which claimed various injunctions against the three named union officials, Hadmor issued on 17 February 1981 a notice of motion for interlocutory injunctions in the same terms as ... ...
  • Brink's Mat Ltd v Elcombe
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 12 Junio 1987
    ... ... these proceedings, their information was not complete but it was thought necessary to apply to the court as a matter of urgency to obtain injunctions to prevent the defendants from disposing of the assets acquired with and through the use of the proceeds of the stolen gold. So far as concerns the ... ...
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1977
    ... ... 3 2. Whether Mr. Gouriet's claim against the Post Office Unions to such injunctions or declarations is maintainable or ought to be struck out ... 4 The present proceedings are interlocutory only, so that Mr. Gouriet should be ... ...
  • Nimenia Maritime Corporation v Trave Gmbh & Company
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 Febrero 1986
    ... ... In the course of his lengthy judgment the learned judge referred to many of the authorities concerning the grant or refusal of Mareva injunctions in the context of two questions on which he felt that further guidance was needed. He formulated these questions as follows: "First, what probability ... ...
  • Siskina (Owners of cargo lately laden on board) v Distos Compania Naviera S.A.
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Octubre 1977
    ... ... This factor has been present in all previous cases in which Mareva injunctions have been granted. As the shipowners contend and Kerr J. and Bridge L. J. held, it is not present in the instant case ... 11 The general rule is ... ...
  • F. Hoffmann-LA Roche & Company A.G. and Others v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
    • House of Lords
    • 03 Julio 1974
    ... ... seen that there is no reference in this section to interim injunction, but it is not disputed that the Court has power to grant interim injunctions. The question in this appeal is in what terms such an injunction should be granted ... An interim injunction against a party to a litigation may ... ...
  • Attorney-General v Blake (pet. all.)
    • House of Lords
    • 27 Julio 2000
    ... ... Likewise, the court will compel the observance of negative obligations by granting injunctions. This may include a mandatory order to undo an existing breach, as where the court orders the defendant to pull down building works carried out in ... ...
  • Channel Tunnel Group Ltd and Another v Balfour Beatty Construction Ltd and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Enero 1993
    ... ... 13 I therefore reach the conclusion that the Siskina does not impose the third limit on the power to grant interlocutory injunctions which the respondents contend for. Even applying the test laid down by the Siskina the court has power to grant interlocutory relief based on a ... ...
  • National Commercial Bank Jamaica Ltd v Olint Corporation Ltd
    • Privy Council
    • 28 Abril 2009
    ... ... 19 There is however no reason to suppose that in stating these principles, Lord Diplock was intending to confine them to injunctions which could be described as prohibitory rather than mandatory. In both cases, the underlying principle is the same, namely, that the court should ... ...
  • R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex parte Factortame Ltd (No 2)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Octubre 1990
    ... ... reasoning leading to the conclusion that this section on its true construction confers a jurisdiction which never existed before to grant injunctions against the Crown appears from the following passage in the judgment of Woolf L.J. in S.K.F. , at pp. 390-391: "Turning to consider the ... ...
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