Injunctions

A builder begins digging next to your bungalow and you fear the boundary wall will collapse. By the time a court decides who is right, the wall will be gone and no cheque can rebuild what you wanted. You need the court to stop him now, and, if you win, to stop him for good. That is an injunction. It is the one remedy in the Act that looks forward and not back.

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An injunction is a court order restraining a person from doing an act, or in its mandatory form compelling him to undo one; the Specific Relief Act 1963 treats it as preventive relief (ss.36 to 42), granted as temporary (until a stated time or further order) or perpetual (by decree on the merits), with s.41 listing the cases where it is refused.

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