INTRODUCTION
1975 was a good year for the common law. On 17 July, Jonathan Hirst was called to the Bar. I am very pleased and privileged to have been asked to say something in a talk dedicated to the memory of such an irrepressible and generous spirited man, a powerful advocate and a staunch champion of the common law and the traditions of the Bar. 1975 was also the year in which the Mareva injunction was born. Jonathan was of course involved with many Mareva-related cases. In one, Lord Justice Kerr referred to his submissions as lucid and forceful, and said he found them most helpful … before rejecting them. I shall refer to it as the Mareva injunction, not as it has become following the Woolf reforms a freezing order. That is not because I am an old dog who has trouble learning new tricks, although I am that; but rather because freezing orders also encompass proprietary injunctions, which are simply a species of American Cyanamid interim injunction to which different considerations apply … (more)
Lord Justice Popplewell, ‘The Mareva at 50 – a midlife crisis?’, Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 2 December 2025. Lord Justice Popplewell delivered the sixth Jonathan Hirst QC Commercial Law Lecture on 20 November 2025 at Inner Temple in London.
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