Emergency Injunctions

Our specialist team of lawyers are regularly instructed to obtain emergency injunctions for a range of clients including local authorities and other firms of solicitors.

Our work includes obtaining injunctions for local planning authorities in order to prevent unauthorised development, including unauthorised traveller encampments. Our lawyers also have experience in obtaining freezing orders in cases where a defendant’s assets need to be preserved pending enforcement of a judgment debt.

Our cases include obtaining the first “hot spot” injunctions of their kind, successfully preventing unlawful incursions of traveller and gypsy sites on very sizeable areas of land. The applications meant that the local authorities involved did not need to keep returning to court to obtain injunctions over smaller plots of land in the same area.

Our experience and knowledge of the necessary procedures ensures that we able to provide emergency assistance in obtaining injunctions. We are on hand to assist with the drafting of evidence in support of applications and the swift and efficient processing of court papers to ensure that our clients are in the best possible position to obtain the injunctions they need, as soon as they need them.

We also assist with committal applications seeking imprisonment of defendants who have breached High Court orders and regularly successfully obtain final injunctions over land.

Our team also advise local authorities in respect of costs including cases where local authorities have had adverse cost awards made against them.