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'''Continuing mandamus''' or '''structural interdict''' or '''structural injunction''' is a relief given by a court of law through a series of ongoing orders over a long period of time, directing an authority to do its duty or fulfill an obligation in [[general public interest]], as and when a need arises over the duration a case lies with the court, with the court choosing not to dispose the case off in finality. This happens in a situation which cannot be remedied instantaneously but requires a solution over a long time, at times going on for years. With this procedural innovation of the writ of [[mandamus]] or a mandatory order, the court monitors compliance of its orders, seeking periodic reports from authorities on the progress in implementing them.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/speeches/speeches_2010/dp_shrivastava_memorial_lecture_20-3-10.pdf#page=3|title=The Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Protection|last=Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, (CJI)|website=D.P. Shrivastava Memorial Lecture - High Court of Chattisgarh, Bilaspur – March 20, 2010|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://philja.judiciary.gov.ph/assets/files/pdf/learning_materials/A.m.No.09-6-8-SC_annotation.pdf#page=6|title=Annotation to the Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases (A.M. No. 09-6-8-SC)|last=Secretariat of the Sub-committee of Rules, Supreme Court, Manila|first=Republic of the Philippines|website=Philippine Judicial Academy, p.103, 140|date=2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.abs-cbn.com/features/09/07/09/rps-erin-brokovich-one-lawsuit-time|title=RP's Erin Brokovich: One lawsuit at a time|last=Dizon|first=David|date=7 Sep 2009|work=ABS - CBN News}}</ref>

It may enlist senior advocates to assist it as ''[[amicus curiae]]'' in court, or as court commissioners in the field, and subject experts or expert bodies to report back to it on the facts and ground-realities of the case. It may appoint a court committee or a court commission, independent from the [[executive (government)|executive]], as its oversight or monitoring agency. It may require the subject-matter covered by the case, be taught in schools and universities, making it part of textbooks and syllabi, or be given wide publicity through the media.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MjXJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA204&#v=onepage&q&f=true|title=Global Environmental Constitutionalism|last=May|first=James R.|last2=Daly|first2=Erin|date=2014-11-17|publisher=Cambridge University Press (pg. 158, 161, 167, 204)|isbn=9781107022256|language=en}}</ref> It may use contempt against people in positions of power or authority as a remedy in case of non-compliance or poor implementation of its orders.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fwtCCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA171&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true|title=Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health?|last=Parmar|first=Sharanjeet|last2=Wahi|first2=Namita|date=2011-09-12|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780986106200|editor-last=Yamin|editor-first=Alicia Ely|language=en|chapter=Ch. 7. India {{!}} Citizens, Courts and the Right to Health: Between Promise and Progress}}</ref> It may recommend that the legislature frame a policy in the matter, for the future.

==India==

The doctrine of continuing mandamus, first propounded in a case in the late 1970s, has been discussed and dealt with in the respective cases of ''[[Vineet Narain]]'' v. ''Union of India''<ref>Vineet Narain v. Union of India, AIR 1996 SC 3386</ref> and ''[[Bandhua Mukti Morcha]]'' v. ''Union of India & Ors.''<ref>Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of India, AIR 1984 SC 802</ref> It
has been applied to cleaning the air around the [[Taj Mahal]] and the waters of the [[Ganga]], and to mitigate travel conditions in commuter trains and road surface, traffic & vehicle conditions, in cities. As it essentially seeks to directly control the bureaucracy, bypassing the political regime, it has met with both, gradual success and stiff resistance, in India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Mate_berkeley_0028E_10869.pdf#page=145|title=The Variable Power of Courts: The Expansion of the Power of the Supreme Court of India in Fundamental Rights and Governance Decisions|last=Mate|first=Manoj, S.|date=Fall 2010|website=University of California, Berkeley ( pg. 137, 152, 182)}}</ref>

If a case, [[prima facie]], cannot be made out against an accused in a [[charge sheet]], it is to be closed and quickly submitted to the court.
The courts are not concerned with the accusations on merit, in such cases, but merely whether the agencies have investigated them expeditiously, and to their logical conclusion.

==Philippines==
The ''Manila Bay Case'' led to the formal placement of the procedural innovation of continuing mandamus in statute books in the Philippines, where it is being resorted to by litigants in other cases.

==South Africa==
The Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2002, recognised the need for structural interdicts in their supervisory jurisdiction, where declaratory orders go unheeded. This need should be coupled with a meaningful engagement of all the parties to the litigation in securing socio-economic rights.

==Canada==
Courts would give time to authorities for compliance, by suspending or delaying declarations of invalidity. In 2003, the Supreme Court of Canada in ''Doucet-Boudreau v Nova Scotia (Minister of Education)'' held that, in constitutional cases a court could keep the final outcome in a case pending in a post-judgment supervisory jurisdiction, and would not become ''functus officio.''

==United States==
Structural injunction, formulated possibly first by American courts, has been applied to try remedy schools, prisons, environmental cleanup and traditional rights of indigenous people.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sturm|first=Susan P.|date=1990–91|title=A Normative Theory of Public Law Remedies|url=https://change-center.squarespace.com/s/A-Normative-Theory-of-Public-Law-Remedies.pdf#page=83|journal=Georgetown Law Journal|volume=79|pages=1355–1446}}</ref>

==Notes==
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