Injunctions: Law and Practice 4th ed (eBook)

The fourth edition of Injunctions: Law and Practice is written and laid out in a way that helps both the busy practitioner looking for a quick answer, but also anyone wishing to gain a more in-depth understanding of the Irish law relating to injunctions. It identifies and analyses all the major judgments delivered by the Irish Superior Courts since the third edition. It also considers material changes to both the Rules of the Superior Courts and practice in the courts.

Key features:

Up-to-date review of key cases in the field of injunctions.
• Detailed guide to practical aspects of applying for injunctions.
• Topics and themes broken down, with extensive use of headings and subheadings to facilitate easy access and reference.
• Summaries and key quotations set out in the text.
• In-depth consideration of the law and its development.
• Extensive use of footnotes for further reading and analysis.

New to the 4th edition:

• Considers the ongoing effect of the Supreme Court judgment in Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation v Clonmel Healthcare Ltd [2019] IESC 65 on the courts’ approach to injunction applications.
• Reviews the courts’ approach to the costs of interlocutory injunction applications in light of the changes brought about by the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, together with the relevant changes to the Rules of the Superior Courts.
• Analyses the evolution of the courts’ approach to contempt and associated sanctions.
• Brings the law up to date, including in discrete areas, and identifies important developments in areas such as employment law, planning law, defamation law and criminal law.
• Reviews the development of the law in England in relation to both “persons unknown” and “newcomers” and looks at how this has informed, or might inform, the approach in Ireland, with a focus on the Supreme Court judgment in Pepper Finance v Persons Unknown [2023] IESC 21.
• Considers important developments from the courts in England, in particular in relation to development of the law there with regard to whether an application for an interlocutory injunction must be conditional on an underlying cause of action.