ABSTRACT
Injunctions may be mandatory, ordering the defendant to do something. This variety of injunction is rarely used because a decree of specific performance will normally fulfil the same function by enforcing positive undertakings. Alternatively, an injunction may be prohibitory, ordering the defendant not to do something, such as will be the case where the defendant has entered into an express negative covenant and he proposes to contravene that provision. Such injunctions are likely to be refused if the harm suffered by the claimant is trivial.28 Finally, pending the outcome of legal proceedings, the court may grant an interlocutory injunction, which will last until the matter is finally decided one way or the other.
