SHAHEEN MERCHANT vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN/NATIONAL TARIFF COMMISSION art — 2021 PTD 2126 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2021 PTD 2126 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2021
Reporter: PTD
Parties: SHAHEEN MERCHANT vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN/NATIONAL TARIFF COMMISSION art

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Judgment text as reported

SHAHEEN MERCHANT VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN/NATIONAL TARIFF COMMISSION art.37(d)---Constitutional mandate for duty of state to provide inexpensive and expeditious justice---Maxim "Interest Reipublicae Ut Sit Finis Litium"---Legislative insertion of time-bound mechanism for decision on matters before judicial forums / courts---Scope---Maxim "Interest Reipublicae Ut Sit Finis Litium" meant that it was in interest of the State that there should be an end to litigation --- Law of limitation provided and controlled time-duration as a legally permissible span to bring a justiciable lis before a court of law in order to bring certainty and conclusiveness to right of action and to avoid probability of an indefinite threat of exasperation---Courts were also expected to decide the disputes brought before them within reasonable time and in an expeditious manner---Maxim 'justice delayed is justice denied' also highlighted significance of dispensation of justice in a timely manner and laid stress on responsibilities of courts to decide cases in an expeditious manner---Considering the nature and signification of a particular subject-matter which required swift and speedy resolution of disputes by judicial forums, Legislature has always incorporated a time-bound mechanism not only for preferring a dispute or appeal to a judicial forum or appellate tribunal, as the case may be, but also specifically prescribed and laid down a definite time limit to give decision thereon to meet the ends of expeditious justice, which was a command of Constitution under art. 37(d) of the Constitution, wherein State was duty bound to ensure inexpensive and expeditious justice to the citizens.

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