Because the remedy is discretionary, everything turns on identifying which kind of injunction is sought and what the court requires before granting it. This chapter opens with the nature and types of injunction — prohibitory and mandatory, final and interim — and how a mandatory order differs from specific performance. It then works through what a claimant must show for a final injunction, including the lighter burden when enforcing a negative covenant, before turning to interim relief: the four-stage test, the cross-undertaking in damages and the balance of convenience. It finishes with the limits on injunctions touching personal service contracts and restrictive covenants, quia timet injunctions for threatened breaches, the general equitable bars to relief, and the court's statutory power to award damages in lieu.
