injunct

Related to injunct: permanent injunction

injunct

(ɪnˈdʒʌŋkt)
vb
(Law) (tr) to issue a legal injunction against (a person)
[C19: from Late Latin injunctiō; see enjoin]
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Raymond McCord's lawyers will urge a High Court judge to convene a hearing later in the week on an application to injunct prorogation.
The legal bid in Belfast to injunct Boris Johnson's move was adjourned for 24 hours after being launched by prominent victims campaigner Raymond McCord, who was also already pursing legal proceedings against the potential proroguing of Parliament.
"With this kind of information and evidence which remains uncontroverted, an order to restrain eviction cannot apply as there is nobody to evict or injunct against," the judge said.NOT MERITED"For the above reasons stated, it is my finding that the application is not merited and the same is dismissed with no order as to cost," he added.
Balpa chief executive Brian Strutton described British Airways' actions as an attempt to "injunct this industrial action on a technicality".
Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton said: "The Court of Appeal has today rightly dismissed BA's attempt to injunct this industrial action on a technicality.
"...the present application has attempted to pressurize the Respondent by threatening to injunct the rights of Respondent to contest election, and hand in glove with the political parties, has thereby attempted to extend political mileage to political parties contesting elections against herein respondents (Pragya)," the BJP candidate from Bhopal said.
to injunct Alan Myers QC from acting for Clayton Utz in Dale's
Though the Apex Court did not injunct Islamic religious authorities like the Dar-ul- Uloom Deoband, Dar-ul-Qaza or Nizam-e-Qaza from issuing fatwa as issuance of fatwas per se were not illegal in its opinion, it clarified that "it is not a decree, not binding on the court or the state or the individual.
The Guardian did not consult over the story published on June 16 revealing that GCHQ had bugged the computers and phones of G-20 politicians and officials, because it was feared that the government might try to injunct us - a month later the government did, indeed, make that explicit threat.
Seeking to injunct the BCCI from holding the AGM and elections, he said the tenure of BCCI president came to an end on September 9 and the CAB's plea be decided first.
According to the Guardian, the News of the World also took advice to see if it could injunct Lewis and prevent him from representing alleged hacking victims and tried to persuade one of his former clients to sue him.
Beckham, 36, tried to injunct to stop Rebecca Loos giving an interview about an alleged four-month affair in 2004 which the star has always strenuously denied.