The principal remedies which are available in civil proceedings generally are examined in this chapter, consisting of legal remedies (debt and damages), which are available as of right on proof of infringement of the claimant's legal rights, and equitable remedies (injunction, specific performance, rectification and account), which the court may award, at its discretion, when a legal remedy would be inadequate or unavailable.
The discretion to award equitable remedies is exercised in accordance with established principles. In particular, an equitable remedy will not be awarded where it would be inequitable to do so, for example, in the light of the claimant's previous bad behaviour in relation to the subject matter of the claim (the rule that the claimant must come to the court with clean hands), or where the claimant has delayed in claiming the remedy, to the defendant's detriment
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