29 November 2024
What is an Injunction?An injunction is an order from the court to a company or individual to do something or stop doing something, or to order them not to do something in future. A typical example is where a newspaper is ordered not to publish a particular story. If the newspaper goes ahead and publishes they will be in breach of the injunction. That can have serious consequences: breaching a court order means the editor or publisher can be held in ‘contempt of court’, and they could be sent to pri […]