Consolidated practice directions

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1. 
Where a party is subjected to a restraint imposed by an interlocutory 
injunction or an interlocutory undertaking to the Court, (whether the 
application for an injunction is made without notice being given to the 
other party (ex parte), by consent, or otherwise) the party having the 
benefit of the restraint will generally be required to give to the Court the 
usual undertaking as to damages in the terms set out below. The 
undertaking will also be required to be given by any party obtaining the 
benefit of an order under: 
(a) s 138 of the 
Transfer of Land Act 1893
, having the effect of extending 
a caveat lodged under s 137 of that Act pending the determination 
of the claim in respect of which the caveat was lodged; or 
(b) s 138C of the 
Transfer of Land Act 1893
, having the effect of 
extending the operation of caveats after a s 138B notice 
2. 
Any party seeking and obtaining the benefit of any such injunction, 
undertaking or order will generally be required to give the usual 
undertaking as to damages, regardless of whether such party is named 
in the proceedings as a plaintiff, as a defendant, or otherwise. 
3. 
The undertaking as to damages will not usually be required from the 
State [or Commonwealth] except where the State [or Commonwealth] is 
suing to assert a proprietary or contractual right. In appropriate cases, 
the Court may relieve a party from the requirement to give the usual 
undertaking or may require modification or extension of the usual 
undertaking. 
4. 
It should be noted that the usual undertaking, by its terms, unless 
otherwise ordered, remains operative during the period of any extension 
(whether by consent or otherwise) of the injunction, undertaking or 
order in connection with which it was originally given.

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.3.4 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
5. 
The form of the usual undertaking is as follows:
'The plaintiff or defendant (as the case may be) undertakes to the 
court that he will pay to any party restrained or affected by the 
restraints imposed by this interlocutory injunction, or this 
interlocutory undertaking to the court, or the caveat as extended by 
this order (as the case may be) or of interim continuation thereof, 
such compensation as the court may in its discretion consider in the 
circumstances to be just, such compensation to be assessed by the 
court or in accordance with such directions as the court may make 
and to be paid in such manner as the court may direct.'

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4. General Division - Civil 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
4.3.5
Interlocutory Applications - Time for Filing Affidavits