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What happens when an injunction expires?

If I can take an example. We have Mr A and a musician who are next door neighbours. The musician likes to play his music loudly, much to the annoyance of Mr A. Mr A complains verbally to the musician about the noise levels which disturb his every minute. The musician disregards his neighbour's complaint, and so Mr A writes to him formally. Again, his complaint falls on deaf ears, so Mr A writes to his local council. Council officers visit the musician who, again, disregards their advice and legal threats.

At the end of his tether, Mr A applies to a court for an injunction to stop the musician from playing his music for x

amount of time, let's say a year. The musician complies with the injunction which expires.

What happens then? The musician knows he cannot return to his old ways with his loud music because Mr A will simply seek

another injunction. On the other hand, he doesn't want to live in a world of silence, so he tells himself he is prepared to compromise with Mr A and play his music at half the previous volume. Is that how it works: the musician needs to contact Mr A and propose a compromise?

Thanks

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  • lare
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    musician needs headphones.

  • 4 years ago

    Sure you can try that or hopefully you live where people have basements (good places to practice).

  • Bob B
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    It would depend on what the injunction was for and what specifically it ordered.

    Generally speaking, in the situation you describe, you wouldn't get a time-limited injunction like the one you describe- in this case, the musician would be violating noise regulations and would be served a formal order to comply with them (and possibly a fine for breaching them in the first place). The regulations never expire so if he kept breaching them, he could face additional penalties.

    If you did have a time-limited injunction for whatever reason, then after it expired, it would no longer have any legal effect and you could do what you wanted- on the other hand, if you went back to doing what you were doing it probably wouldn't be hard for the other person to get a new order against you. There might not be any obligation to seek a compromise or anything, but it would probably look favourably on you if you did.

  • 4 years ago

    It doesn't work anymore?

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