背景
Freezing injunctions are often used in Guernsey to preserve the assets of a defendant whilst proceedings are, or are gong to be, pursued in the Guernsey Courts. It is also common for the Royal Court of Guernsey to grant freezing injunctions ancillary to proceedings and/or injunctions in other jurisdictions.
The effect of the freezing injunction is to compel the affected party from dealing with their assets that are the subject of the order, if the order is breached then they will be in contempt of court, accordingly the injunction operates在人物中rather than在雷反对财产。
应用程序
通常进行冻结令的应用ex partein the first instance because there is a risk that the respondent will dissipate his assets. If the application is madeex parte申请人和他的倡导者施加了完整和弗兰克披露的常规义务，因为冻结令的性质是Draconian。如果进行订单ex parte法院将在申请必须返回时设定约会inter partesbasis. This is generally done with as short amount of time as possible between the two hearings.
The threshold criteria for obtaining a freezing injunction is:
- The plaintiff has a good arguable case on a substantive claim over which the Court has jurisdiction;
- The defendant has assets in the jurisdiction; and
- 有一种真正的耗散或分泌资产的风险，这将使原告的判断毫无价值。
In addition to the above if the injunction is sought in respect of foreign proceedings there is an additional limb to the above of "特殊情况下". The Guernsey Court of Appeal has considered this limb of the test to mean that the Court should exercise caution before granting the freezing injunction.
If the applicant is seeking a worldwide freezing injunction the Court will want to be satisfied that the assets within the jurisdiction are insufficient to satisfy the judgment and that the respondent has assets outside the jurisdiction.
即使上面的标准是满足法院still retains a discretion that it may only grant the injunction if it considers that it is just and convenient to do so.
申请人承诺
法院通常希望申请人在申请冻结禁令时提出以下事项：
- 如果法院稍后发现不得授予禁令，则赔偿受访者;
- To pay the costs incurred by any third parties in complying with the order; and
- Not to use any of the information obtained by virtue of the freezing injunction for any proceedings without the permission of the court.
一旦订购禁令，必须担任受访者和任何第三方，这些第三方通常由HM警长在Guernsey中完成。如果受访者驻地居住在管辖范围之外，申请人需要确保他在订单草稿中寻求向司法管辖区授予授权的订单。重要的是要确保订单仔细起草，以便其术语涵盖申请人想要被涵盖的所有资产，并包括刑罚通知。
Disclosure Order
除了保护资产ancillary order that is made by the Court upon a freezing injunction being ordered is the disclosure of information in respect of the assets. This is likely to be a statement disclosing his assets to be supported by evidence of the same. The ancillary disclosure order is necessary to give teeth to the injunction as without it the applicant would not know what assets belonged to the respondent and if they are actually frozen.
It should also be noted that third parties that have disclosure orders made against them are also bound as regards the freezing injunction and must not knowingly assist the respondent in removing or disposing of the assets or else risk committal proceedings.
辅助披露顺序显然有利于追求被告的任何潜在债权人或知识产权。还有潜在的被告必须披露任何令人信服的利息，这可能揭示了申请人的另一个资产池。
Next Steps
冻结令将保持生效，直到法院的各种或排放，或者被申请人支付与申请人索赔的价值相当的金额。被申请人将经常向法院申请订单的变化。该命令通常还将指明，在通常的业务过程中，申请人不会妨碍他的资产，尽管应当指出，如果申请人在资产中宣称专有权，则将完全冻结。
Summary
根西岛的禁令是确保受访者无法挫败了根本和其他司法管辖区的实质性程序中的任何判断。此外，它可以是一个有用的工具，可以确定被访者在根西赛中的资产的程度，两者都有那些直接拥有的资产以及他有益兴趣的人。如果在实质性诉讼中主张资产的专有利息，这可能导致资产完全冻结。为了将Guernsey作为国际金融中心的地位，皇家法院将助攻外国索赔人确保任何判决，他们在世界各地的判断不会被被告在其管辖范围内隐藏其资产的挫败。
詹姆斯提雷
Collas Crill LLP.
