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Injunction

An equitable remedy deployed in the public law arena to prevent decision-making or the enforcement of decisions or orders in breach of statute.
- Published in Administrative Law by David Mullan
An order of the court requiring a party to perform some act or refrain from some conduct so as to respect the rights of another.
- Published in The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 4th ed. by Honourable Mr. Justice Robert J. Sharpe and Kent Roach
A court order requiring someone to stop doing a specified act (negative injunction) or requiring the doing of a positive act (mandatory injunction). Injunctions can be granted pre-trial (interim or interlocutory injunctions) or after a full trial (final injunction). Disobedience can result in proceedings for contempt of court, leading to a fine or even imprisonment.
- Published in Copyright Law by David Vaver
- Published in Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, second edition by David Vaver
A discretionary court order to do or not to do something. An injunction may be mandatory (requiring a positive course of action), prohibitory (requiring the cessation of some activity), interlocutory (an interim injunction before trial), and quia timet (issued before any damage has been suffered).
- Published in Law of Torts, 4th edition by Philip Osborne
A court order restraining a party from the performance of some act (prohibitory injunction), or requiring the performance of some act (mandatory injunction). Injunctions may be permanent or temporary.
- Published in Trauma, Trials, and Transformation: Guiding sexual assault victims through the legal system and beyond by Judith Daylen, Wendy van Tongeren Harvey and Dennis O'Toole