What's the difference between injunct and injunction?
Injunct
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The airline had secured its injunction on the admittedly flimsy grounds that Unite broke strict rules over reporting ballot results.
(2) "This is not the death of the super-injunction," he said.
(3) Representing the Sun in the second hearing, Richard Spearman QC told the court that keeping the privacy injunction in place was futile.
(4) He said: "If the presenter of Law in Action had such an injunction and didn't make it clear that that was the case and was conducting interviews and discussions about the very subject then clearly there would be an editorial issue with conflict of interest.
(5) The Sunday Mirror went to court seeking an injunction to order the NoW to stop trying to bribe its staff.
(6) Grieve said: "It is quite clear, and has been clear for some time in a number of different spheres, that the enforceability of court orders and injunctions when the internet exists – into which information can be rapidly posted – does present a challenge.
(7) Whittingdale said the use of social media such as Twitter to breach injunctions was in danger of making "the law look an ass".
(8) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
(9) His removal went ahead despite attempts to obtain a last-minute injunction and a 120-strong vigil outside the Home Office.
(10) Lawyers acting on behalf of the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas, who the footballer is alleged to have had an affair with and is fighting alongside the Sun to get the injunction lifted, claimed that the injunction battle had become about "the dignity of the court".
(11) Rusbridger delivered his speech, which is named after the anti-apartheid campaigner and South African journalist, in the wake of revelations posted on Twitter on Sunday about the alleged identity of public figures who have taken out high court injunctions to prevent stories being published about them in the press.
(12) They also demand a temporary injunction to the Tempora programme, which allows Britain's spy centre GCHQ to harvest millions of emails, phone calls and Skype conversations from the undersea cables that carry internet traffic in and out of the country.
(13) Friday's ruling, combined with Trafigura's epic failure to suppress information, suggests that courts may be less willing to issue such injunctions in future.
(14) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
(15) Dominic Mohan , speaking before a joint parliamentary committee of examining reform of legislation relating to privacy and injunctions, said that he would ask judges to "balance it [their judgments] more in favour of freedom of expression".
(16) The socialite was among a number of celebrities alleged to have taken out privacy injunctions to stop potentially embarrassing details being made public.
(17) Lawyers for Terry won a high court injunction last Friday, having learned that the News of the World planned to write about his private life.
(18) In a separate development, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has reportedly been asked by another judge to consider a criminal prosecution against a journalist who allegedly used Twitter to name a different footballer in breach of a privacy injunction.
(19) No viable claim for an injunction lies until there is something purportedly done under the act,” he said.
(20) Now, twisted by the likes of the Sun and the Daily Mail to fit their agenda, the term is being used to describe any injunction that prevents them from revealing the identity of people who have asked a judge to prevent publication of articles about their private lives - such as the married Premiership footballer who allegedly had a six-month affair with Welsh model Imogen Thomas (pictured right).
Injunction
Definition:
(n.) The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
(n.) That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
(n.) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.
Example Sentences:
(1) The airline had secured its injunction on the admittedly flimsy grounds that Unite broke strict rules over reporting ballot results.
(2) "This is not the death of the super-injunction," he said.
(3) Representing the Sun in the second hearing, Richard Spearman QC told the court that keeping the privacy injunction in place was futile.
(4) He said: "If the presenter of Law in Action had such an injunction and didn't make it clear that that was the case and was conducting interviews and discussions about the very subject then clearly there would be an editorial issue with conflict of interest.
(5) The Sunday Mirror went to court seeking an injunction to order the NoW to stop trying to bribe its staff.
(6) Grieve said: "It is quite clear, and has been clear for some time in a number of different spheres, that the enforceability of court orders and injunctions when the internet exists – into which information can be rapidly posted – does present a challenge.
(7) Whittingdale said the use of social media such as Twitter to breach injunctions was in danger of making "the law look an ass".
(8) Tina Louise Rothery, 54, had been ordered to pay £55,342 of fees to the British company and a group of landowners, or face a 14-day prison sentence, after she sought to stop an injunction that would prevent protesters from gathering on a stretch of land being considered for shale gas exploration.
(9) His removal went ahead despite attempts to obtain a last-minute injunction and a 120-strong vigil outside the Home Office.
(10) Lawyers acting on behalf of the former Big Brother star Imogen Thomas, who the footballer is alleged to have had an affair with and is fighting alongside the Sun to get the injunction lifted, claimed that the injunction battle had become about "the dignity of the court".
(11) Rusbridger delivered his speech, which is named after the anti-apartheid campaigner and South African journalist, in the wake of revelations posted on Twitter on Sunday about the alleged identity of public figures who have taken out high court injunctions to prevent stories being published about them in the press.
(12) They also demand a temporary injunction to the Tempora programme, which allows Britain's spy centre GCHQ to harvest millions of emails, phone calls and Skype conversations from the undersea cables that carry internet traffic in and out of the country.
(13) Friday's ruling, combined with Trafigura's epic failure to suppress information, suggests that courts may be less willing to issue such injunctions in future.
(14) Lord Justice Leveson's court was packed with lawyers, journalists and computer screens, which made it look like a City trading floor, and which – in a way – is the Leveson story: what price privacy, what price the risk of publishing gossip without checking it, what price tip-off fees about the rich and famous that might be worth £5,000 to a police or NHS worker – or the £500,000 (so top injunction solicitor, Graham Shears, told the hearing) for bedding a David Beckham?
(15) Dominic Mohan , speaking before a joint parliamentary committee of examining reform of legislation relating to privacy and injunctions, said that he would ask judges to "balance it [their judgments] more in favour of freedom of expression".
(16) The socialite was among a number of celebrities alleged to have taken out privacy injunctions to stop potentially embarrassing details being made public.
(17) Lawyers for Terry won a high court injunction last Friday, having learned that the News of the World planned to write about his private life.
(18) In a separate development, the attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has reportedly been asked by another judge to consider a criminal prosecution against a journalist who allegedly used Twitter to name a different footballer in breach of a privacy injunction.
(19) No viable claim for an injunction lies until there is something purportedly done under the act,” he said.
(20) Now, twisted by the likes of the Sun and the Daily Mail to fit their agenda, the term is being used to describe any injunction that prevents them from revealing the identity of people who have asked a judge to prevent publication of articles about their private lives - such as the married Premiership footballer who allegedly had a six-month affair with Welsh model Imogen Thomas (pictured right).