GLOSSARY TERM
	Injunction
	DESCRIPTION
	A court order that either prohibits a party from doing, or continuing to do a certain act (prohibitory injunction) or orders a party to carry out a certain act (mandatory injunction). The remedy is discretionary and will not be granted if an award of monetary damages would be a sufficient remedy. Injunctions are either interlocutory (that is, temporary or provisional until the main court hearing of the case) or permanent. In urgent situations, a party may be granted an interlocutory (interim) injunction at a separate court hearing to preserve the status quo until the dispute has been disposed of at a full court hearing of the case. If a party is granted an interim injunction, it must undertake to compensate the other party for any damage it may suffer by the grant of the injunction if later unsuccessful in the main action.