Although injunction applications are often prepared with little time and few instructions, care must be taken to offer the court as much information as possible. A witness statement will almost always be required.
Your application needs to be made at your local family court, quite quickly following the last incident of abuse, so that you are protected as soon as possible. An injunction is a court order that requires someone to do or not do something.
State as briefly as possible the facts showing that each plaintiff is entitled to the injunction or other relief sought. State how each defendant was involved and what each defendant did that caused the plaintiff harm or violated the plaintiff's rights, including the dates and places of that involvement or conduct.
An application for an interim injunction must usually be supported by evidence. This will usually be in the form of a witness statement or affidavit including all material facts of which the Court should be made aware, and attaching relevant documents.
It is well established that, to determine whether an injunction is ?just and proper,? courts apply the ?familiar set of four equitable factors: the movant's likelihood of success on the merits; the possibility of irreparable injury to the moving party; the extent to which the balance of hardships favors each party; and ...