A purchaser's equitable interest under an uncompleted contract for sale of land is 'superior' to a lender's contractual right to withhold consent to the sale, and this weighs heavily in the balance of convenience against interlocutory restraint. Where a deed contains both a lender consent clause and a separate sale authorisation clause, the two provisions should be construed harmoniously rather than one 'trumping' the other. Delay of more than eight weeks in seeking equitable relief, combined with lodging an unsupportable caveat, weighs against the grant of interlocutory relief.
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