White v Mellin: HL 1895

Lord Watson said: ‘Damages and injunction are merely two different forms of remedy against the same wrong; and the facts which must be proved in order to entitle a plaintiff to the first of these remedies are equally necessary in the case of the second. The onus resting upon a plaintiff who asks an injunction, and does not say that he has as yet suffered any special damage, is if anything the heavier, because it is incumbent upon him to satisfy the Court that such damage will necessarily be occasioned to him in the future.’

Judges:

Lord Watson

Citations:

[1895] AC 134

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Cited by:

CitedDrury v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs CA 26-Feb-2004
Trespassers occupied part of the land owned by the claimant. They now appealed agaainst an injunction preventing them unlawfully occupying any part of the claimant’s land including areas not previously occupied.
Held: It was critical to . .
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Damages

Updated: 29 April 2022; Ref: scu.194593