An injunction can offer you the security and peace of mind that you and your family are protected when a relationship breaks down. Whether you are looking to protect yourself, your home or your assets, it is important to act quickly.
Seeking legal advice early allows us to help you take the right steps to protect you and your assets. Time is critical when considering whether an application should be made for an injunction.
It may also be possible, within the court’s inherent civil powers, to apply for a freezing order to restrain a party from disposing of or dealing with his/her assets. The usual purpose of a freezing order is to preserve a party’s assets until there is an outcome of the financial remedy application. The resulting judgment can then be enforced against the assets that have been frozen, e.g. against funds held in a frozen offshore bank account. Freezing orders can be obtained against assets both within the jurisdiction of England and Wales (a domestic freezing order), or against assets situated outside the jurisdiction (a worldwide freezing order – Mareva injunction). Applications such as these are by their very nature, usually made in an emergency and without notice to the other party against who you are seeking the order. They are invariably expensive.
Our specialist team of divorce settlement lawyers is experienced in dealing with emergency applications and well equipped to guide you through the process and ensure that you achieve value for money. For example, there may be alternative and more practical measures, which can be taken to achieve the same result at a fraction of the cost. In other more complicated cases, these are not possible and freezing orders are the only means of maintaining the status quo.