Interim Injunction

Part 25 of the Civil Procedure Rules devotes an entire section to interim injunctions, setting out which judges can grant them: 'In the High Court, Masters and District Judges may grant interim injunctions by consent, or in connection with charging orders and appointments of receivers, or in support of execution of judgments.' Beyond those specific situations, the general power is wider still: 'In any other case, any judge who has jurisdiction to conduct the trial of the action may grant an interim injunction in that action.'

The underlying statutory source of the power sits in the Senior Courts Act 1981, which confirms that the High Court's injunction power covers both temporary and final orders: 'The High Court may by order (whether interlocutory or final) grant an injunction or appoint a receiver in all cases in which it appears to the court to be just and convenient to do so.' That single sentence is also the origin of the older name for this remedy — an interlocutory injunction — which the Civil Procedure Rules later replaced in everyday usage with 'interim injunction', though the two labels describe the same order.