Hafiz AQEEL ANJUM vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB art — 2025 PLC(CS) 761 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLC(CS) 761 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLC
Parties: Hafiz AQEEL ANJUM vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB art

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Judgment text as reported

Hafiz AQEEL ANJUM VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB art. 199---Judicial review---Scope---High Court may review lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body or may invalidate laws, acts and governmental actions that are incompatible with a higher authority---In exercise of power of judicial review of governmental policy, Court can neither act or represent itself as an appellate authority with the aim of scrutinizing the rightness or aptness of a policy, nor it acts as an advisor to the Executives on matters of policy, which they are entitled to formulate---Judicial review can be sought when decision maker fails to observe statutory procedures, misdirects itself in law, exercises a power wrongly or the policy decision is so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could ever have come to it---In absence of any violation of Constitutional guarantee or patent illegality, such policy decision cannot be invalidated by High Court in exercise of Constitutional jurisdiction.

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