Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPower to grant injunction
| 21. A High Court may grant and issue an injunction to prevent any irremediable mischief which might ensue within its jurisdiction before the party applying for such injunction could prevent the same by bringing an action in any District Court or Magistrate's Court: Provided that it shall, not be lawful for any High Court to grant an injunction to prevent a party any action in any court from appealing to or Prosecuting an appeal in the Supreme Court, or to prevent any party to any action in any court, from insisting upon any ground of action, defence, or appeal or to prevent any person from suing or prosecuting an action in any court, except where such person has instituted two separate actions in different courts for and in respect of the same cause of action, in which case the High Court shall have power by an injunction to restrain him from prosecuting one or the other of such actions as to it may seem fit. |