I have noticed that in two recent editions of the Gazette articles have appeared in which firms of solicitors were said to have been 'injuncted'.


The noun 'injunction' has no directly derivative verb, so far as I am aware. It comes from the Latin verb 'injungere', which means 'to enjoin'. Thus, one is 'enjoined' by an injunction from doing something.


While I am feeling pedantic, I must express my irritation at the expression (which, admittedly, seems to have become commonplace) 'head of legal'. 'Legal' is an adjective. An adjective cannot stand alone; it needs an accompanying noun.



John Haden, professional ethics, Law Society, Redditch