Interdicts in Action - Urgent Legal Remedies Demystified

Introduction

Litigation is sometimes fast paced, often challenging and rarely predictable. Perhaps nothing embodies this better than when seeking an urgent remedy to protect your client's position.

Whether it is offensive online reviews, a director setting up a rival business, or a competitor selling ‘look-alike’ products, clients face daily threats to their livelihood. These often come without warning and at the most inconvenient of times. Clients and those advising them must move quickly in response.

The immediate answer is often to apply to court for an interdict to stop the particular act in question. Whilst such a robust and immediate solution often has the desired effect on its intended target, it is not without risk.

Before proceeding with such a course of action, lawyers (and of course their clients) need to fully weigh up the risks of doing so. What might seem like a quick and decisive step can often have longer term consequences for your client as they may ultimately be liable for damages for wrongful interdict or become embroiled in lengthy court proceedings.

By attending this virtual classroom session, you will receive practical advice on navigating every step of the interdict process, including how to deal with less common problems such as breach of interdict.

This live session will also include a discussion of the speaker’s own recent experience representing clients in interdict actions.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Choosing the correct forum; this is not always just a question of value
• The legal basis for applying for interim (and permanent) interdict
• How to word your interim interdict so it is fit for purpose
• Potential alternatives to interdict
• Asking the court for an interdict + damages
• Breach of interdict and the consequences which may flow from breach
• Risk for your client

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.