Injunctions are often used in employment disputes. For example, to stop employees (or more often, ex-employees)
- Breaching non-compete clauses in their employment contracts by setting up a rival business
- Soliciting former clients or customers or their former colleagues in their new job
- Using or disclosing their ex-employer’s confidential information and trade secrets, such as customer or pricing details
- Shareholders looking to force companies to cunt their vote at a shareholder meeting
- Landowners who want to stop ongoing activities that amount to a nuisance
- Individuals who wish to prevent the publication of defamatory and untrue comments
Sometimes an injunction will include a clause stopping the other side from even disclosing that the injunction has been obtained against them, or by whom. These are known as super-injunctions.