ordonnance en référé

English translation: temporary injunction

02:46 Mar 14, 2020

French to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) / from an appeal of a garnishment (2)

French term or phrase: ordonnance en référé

Fairly new to legal translation. I'm translating this as "order of expedited procedure". Am i correct?

Thank you!

Janet Cannon KudoZ activity Questions: 24 (none open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 60 United States
Local time: 11:01

English translation:temporary injunction

Explanation:
"L'ordonnance de référé est une décision provisoire rendue à la demande d'une partie... dans les cas où la loi confère à un juge qui n'est pas saisi du principal le pouvoir d'ordonner immédiatement les mesures nécessaires. Dans tous les cas d'urgence, le juge peut ordonner en référé toutes les mesures qui ne se heurtent à aucune contestation sérieuse ou que justifie l'existence d'un différend." https://www.avocat.fr/ordonnance-de-refere

A court order that Party X has to do or stop doing something is called an injunction. An injunction can be either temporary (e.g., "defendant is ordered not to sell copies of that book until after we have a hearing to determine whether the true owner of the copyright in the book is the defendant or the plaintiff") or permanent ("we had a hearing, you don't own the copyright, so now you are ordered to never sell any copies of that book again").

An ordonnance en référé is an order (often an emergency order) that the defendant do or not do something. So, it's an injunction. And it's provisional, i.e. temporary ("don't do X until we have a hearing to figure out whether you have the right to do X").

A few links:

"A temporary injunction is a court order prohibiting an action by a party to a lawsuit until there has been a trial or other court action.... It is a provisional remedy granted to temporarily curb activity until the court can make a final decision after trial." https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/temporary-injunction/

6 common examples of injunctive relief:
https://tremblylaw.com/4-common-examples-injunctive-relief/

"A preliminary or temporary injunction is a provisional remedy that is invoked to preserve the subject matter in its existing condition. Its purpose is to prevent dis-solution of the plaintiff's rights. The main reason for use of a preliminary injunction is the need for immediate relief." https://law.jrank.org/pages/7647/Injunction-Types-Injunction...

(Note: in your translation I would say "temporary," not "preliminary," because the latter word is specific to US legal procedure, while "temporary" is more general-purpose.)

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Eliza Hall
United States
Local time: 11:01

Grading comment

Thank you! Appreciate all the detailed discussion.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

interlocutary injunction / interim measures

John ANTHONY

summary order

Francois Boye

5 -1

temporary injunction

Eliza Hall

order for/granting interim relief

AllegroTrans

Discussion entries: 5

Answers

27 mins confidence:

summary order

Explanation:
A summary order is a legal decision which is issued without an opinion. Generally, summary orders cannot be cited in other legal cases, and they do not set a precedent. Courts at various levels can use summary orders to handle the disposition of simple legal cases. Such orders are commonly utilized to make efficient use of judicial time by moving straightforward cases through quickly so that the court can focus on more complex legal matters.

Terms such as summary opinion, nonopinion, summary disposition, affirmance without opinion, unpublished order, abbreviated disposition, unpublished opinion, or disposition without opinion may be used to refer to a summary order. In all cases, the court hands down a decision without offering an opinion with the decision, or with a very limited opinion. For example, the judge might make a brief statement when issuing the decision, and this statement provides any additional information which the judge may think is relevant.

This differs from a summary judgment. In a summary judgment, one of the parties in a case moves to have the case decided before it goes to trial. If the motion is accepted, the court rules on the case without having evidence and other information presented. In a summary order, the court has heard the case and reviewed related materials, and it issues a judgment on the basis of this information.

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https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/référé

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 11:01
Does not meet criteria
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 36

Notes to answerer

Asker: really helpful! I'm supposed to wait till tomorrow to give points- but may I ask if the term "order of injunction" proposed in another answer is interchangeable with "summary order"?

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

interlocutary injunction / interim measures

Explanation:
[...] par la Lombardie d'une nouvelle législation autorisant la chasse de quatre espèces protégées jusqu'au 31 décembre 2009, la Commission a décidé d'inviter la Cour à prendre une ordonnance de référé afin de suspendre immédiatement les dispositions en cause.
europa.eu
However, after the Lombardy region recently passed new legislation which allows the hunting of four protected species until 31 December 2009, the Commission has decided to seek an injunction from the Court to immediately suspend the legislation concerned.
europa.eu
la suite du recours en annulation et
de la demande en référé introduits par la France à l'encontre de certaines dispositions du règlement précité, le tribunal de première instance a, par ordonnance du juge des référés
du 28 septembre
[...]
eur-lex.europa.eu
[...]
and demand for
interim measures brought by France against certain provisions of this Regulation, by Order of 28 September 2007 of the Judge hearing the application for interim measures (2 ), the
Court suspended the
[...]
eur-lex.europa.eu
d'entamer des procédures d'infraction afin
d'obtenir une ordonnance en référé et des redevances
de licence de parties tierces.
eur-lex.europa.eu
[...]
threaten companies with infringement actions to
obtain an interlocutory injunction and extract licence
fees from third parties
eur-lex.europa.eu

Reference: http://eur-lex.europa.eu
Reference: http://europa.eu

John ANTHONY
France
Local time: 17:01
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 31

1 day 13 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

temporary injunction

Eliza Hall
United States
Local time: 11:01
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 60

Grading comment

Thank you! Appreciate all the detailed discussion.

Notes to answerer

Asker: Well, it was complicated. Party A asked the judge to operate a holding garnishment- actually more of a freeze, on the account of Party B, which was granted as an ordonnance de référé. Then Party B asked the same judge to grant a new order based on a new argument, which they did, ordering the lifting of the freeze. This was the 3rd suit, party A asking and obtaining the reinstatement of the first ordonnance. Perhaps I should have laid that out in the query.

2 days 16 hrs confidence:

order for/granting interim relief

Explanation:
This is an umbrella term

The order may, for example:

- order a company to hold an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders
- grant an injunction
- appoint an expert where parties in a dispute cannot agree who to appaoint
- resolve a matter of dispute in an association of co-owners
- appoint an auditor
- and many more possibilities

So it's completely wrong to call this an injunction

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L’ordonnance de référé est la décision obtenue à l’issue d’une procédure contradictoire dont est saisit le juge des référés de la juridiction (Tribunal de Grande Instance, Tribunal d’instance, tribunal de Commerce) statuant toujours en juge unique, dès lors que le litige ne se heurte à aucune contestation sérieuse et se trouve justifié par l’existence d’un différend d’une urgence particulière.

Le juge des référés peut autoriser des mesures conservatoires (expertises), ordonner des remises en état afin de prévenir un dommage imminent ou de faire cesser un trouble manifestement illicite, c’est-à-dire contraire à la loi.

Lorsque l’obligation n’est pas sérieusement contestable, le juge des référés peut accorder au créancier une provision à valoir sur sa créance définitive. Il peut également prononcer des condamnations sous astreintes (la liquidation de l’astreinte relève en revanche du Juge de l’exécution).

L’ordonnance de référé n’est qu’une décision provisoire, et ne préjuge pas du fond du litige.

https://www.doucinaud.com/30-les-ordonnances-de-refere

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:01
Meets criteria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 527

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