What is an INTERIM RELIEF in the discipline of law?

Answer 1

A halt to proceedings so the judge can go for a ****.

Answer 2

Nicotine and KingOfTheNet are correct.

Interim relief is what may be granted after the court proceedings have begun, while wating for a final determination of the merits at trial. Because litigation can often last years before a trial happens, there is often the need for some relief (remedy) in the meanwhile.

This may take the form of a temporary injunction, preserving the status quo so that nothing changes between now and the end. Or partial damages, or that disputed property is placed in neutral hands and managed in trust until the end of the trial. Or whatever. There are many different possible types of interim relief, based on the jurisdiction.

The overall point is to keep things from getting worse, for either party, until the trial is able to determine the permanent remedy and appropriate relief, based on the actual merits of the whole case.

Answer 3

Interim relief is an order for a temporary remedy while waiting for the trial to take place. For exapmple, in a divorce case, the court may order that one spouse pays maintenance to the other in the interim period between the issue of the divorce petition and the granting of the divorce. an interlocutory injunction is another order for interim relief. In almost all countries this is same.

There are also interim damages, which the court can award before a case is heard. But the court grants these interim dameges only under special circumstances.

Answer 4

Interim relief is a relief granted during the proceedings of the case for the time until the case is finally disposed.

Answer 5

In my jurisdiction, it is interim injunction; it is an injunction given during court proceedings pending the determination of the same by the courts.

Answer 6

Once again. Which jurisdiction?
If in the UK it is a measure allowed by the courts while something else is decided or awaited. E.g Temporary injunction.