CIVIL PROCEDURE : Injunction

4 cases · February 2025 to October 2025

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Interlocutory mandatory injunction — High threshold — Whether applicant required to establish unusually strong and clear case — Distinction between prohibitory and mandatory injunction — Mandatory injunction — Degree of assurance — Whether court slow to grant mandatory relief where validity of underlying contract seriously disputed — Equity — Injunction — Adequacy of damages — Commercial dispute — Quantifiable loss — Whether damages constitute adequate remedy — Mere commercial inconvenience not irreparable harm. 1 Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain filing of winding up petition — Statutory notice of demand based on adjudication decisions — Whether debt disputed on substantial grounds — Whether cross-claim rendered debt disputed — Whether balance of convenience lies in favour of granting injunction 1 Fortuna injunction — Restraint of winding-up petition — Balance of convenience — Whether abuse of process — Whether evidence of afterthought claims sufficient to establish dispute — Two-limb test for Fortuna injunction — Whether petition has no chance of success — Whether irreparable damage would result — Standard of proof for bona fide dispute — Timing of objections in commercial disputes — Whether claims of defective work raised after statutory notice relevant 1 Application for discovery — Whether there are documents for which discovery is sought — Whether documents are sufficiently set out — Whether documents are relevant — Whether documents are in the possession of the defendants and the third party — Rules of Court 2012, o. 24 r. 3, 7, 7A 1

Interlocutory mandatory injunction — High threshold — Whether applicant required to establish unusually strong and clear case — Distinction between prohibitory and mandatory injunction — Mandatory injunction — Degree of assurance — Whether court slow to grant mandatory relief where validity of underlying contract seriously disputed — Equity — Injunction — Adequacy of damages — Commercial dispute — Quantifiable loss — Whether damages constitute adequate remedy — Mere commercial inconvenience not irreparable harm. 1 case

Fortuna injunction — Application to restrain filing of winding up petition — Statutory notice of demand based on adjudication decisions — Whether debt disputed on substantial grounds — Whether cross-claim rendered debt disputed — Whether balance of convenience lies in favour of granting injunction 1 case

Fortuna injunction — Restraint of winding-up petition — Balance of convenience — Whether abuse of process — Whether evidence of afterthought claims sufficient to establish dispute — Two-limb test for Fortuna injunction — Whether petition has no chance of success — Whether irreparable damage would result — Standard of proof for bona fide dispute — Timing of objections in commercial disputes — Whether claims of defective work raised after statutory notice relevant 1 case

Application for discovery — Whether there are documents for which discovery is sought — Whether documents are sufficiently set out — Whether documents are relevant — Whether documents are in the possession of the defendants and the third party — Rules of Court 2012, o. 24 r. 3, 7, 7A 1 case

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