Every injunction decision is a purchase, and honest shops display prices. There are two here: the one everyone expects, and the one that surprises almost every client — which is precisely why this practice puts it in public.
Price One: The Legal Costs
Urgent applications are labour-compressed litigation — affidavits drafted at speed, counsel briefed, hearings moved — and costs scale with urgency, complexity and resistance: the consent-resolved matter and the fought interlocutory battle are different purchases. What honesty requires here: costs discussed openly and in writing before you commit, the proportionality question asked out loud (is the remedy worth its price on these stakes?), and the reminder that losing applications carry the other side’s costs exposure too — which is why the honest triage sometimes recommends the strong letter over the application. What the law forbids: in contentious business, a solicitor may not calculate fees as any percentage of an award — so no figure appears here, and none should appear anywhere.
Price Two: The Undertaking as to Damages
The near-universal condition of interlocutory relief: your promise to the court that if the injunction proves to have been wrongly granted, you’ll compensate the other side for the interim loss it caused — the trading interrupted, the sale delayed, the contracts lost. It can be called on after the case resolves against the restraint; it can be fortified (money into court) where your ability to pay is doubted; and it must be sized honestly before applying: what does this restraint cost them per week if I’m wrong? The boundary restraint and the frozen trading company are very different answers. The full page exists because no other firm writes one — and because clients who understand the price make better decisions than clients sold the exciting half.
The complete decision, honestly framed: the relief’s value against both prices, the alternatives weighed (letters, undertakings sought, ordinary proceedings), and the realistic prospects on the actual test — in writing, before commitment. That’s how injunction decisions are made here, and it’s the version you deserve.
Pricing an urgent decision? Both prices, honestly: 01 5827148.