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2022 PLC(CS) 783 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. MUHAMMAD AZEEM KHAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Establishment Division Rr. 8 & 10(5)---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199 & 112---Promotion---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Fitness for promotion, determina…
2022 PLC(CS) 825 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed HAMMAD RAZA VS SPECIAL SECRETARY GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB S.17---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 25 & 199---Disciplinary proceedings---Discrimination---Petitioner was serving as Inspector Market Committee who was compulsorily retired f…
2022 PLC(CS) 852 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IRSHAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Secretary Irrigation and Power Department Retirement---authority of department to modify retirement order---Scope---Once an order of retirement from service of officer was issued, the same can…
2022 PLC(CS) 852 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IRSHAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Secretary Irrigation and Power Department Retirement---authority of department to modify retirement order---Scope---appellant sought modification of his retirement order issued on the basis of…
2022 PLC(CS) 873 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS DIRECTOR GENERAL RESCUE 1122 R. 18(2)(ii) ---Recruitment policy---Eligibility of candidate in terms of his age---Cut-off date, determination of---Petitioner was over-aged by five days on closing date for submission of appl…
2022 PLC(CS) 873 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS DIRECTOR GENERAL RESCUE 1122 Recruitment policy---Cut-off date, determination of---General principles---Cut-off date by reference to which the eligibility requirement must be satisfied by the candidate seeking a public emp…
2022 PLC(CS) 894 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. MAHA FATIMA TARIQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore arts.9, 18, 25 & 27---Security of person---Freedom of trade, business or profession---Equality of citizens---Safeguard against discrimination in services---appoin…
2022 PLC(CS) 894 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. MAHA FATIMA TARIQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore Discretionary jurisdiction, exercise of---Scope---Discretion vested with the public authorities should be exercised with reasonableness.
2022 PLC(CS) 894 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. MAHA FATIMA TARIQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore appointment---Scope---appointment in public sector is a trust in the hands of public functionaries and it is their moral duty to discharge their trust with zeal,…
2022 CLC 61 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZULQERNAIN KHURRAM VS PUNJAB HEALTHCARE COMMISSION art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Remedy of review, revision or appeal, non-availing of---Effect---If such remedy provided by statute has not be availed, Constitutional…
2022 CLC 61 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZULQERNAIN KHURRAM VS PUNJAB HEALTHCARE COMMISSION art.199---Constitutional petition---New plea---Scope---When a particular plea or objection is not raised before fora below, it is not open for the party to raise the controversy before High…
2022 CLC 61 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZULQERNAIN KHURRAM VS PUNJAB HEALTHCARE COMMISSION Ss.2 (xxix), 28, 30 &31--- anti-Quackery Regulations, 2016, Regln.2 (g)---Constitution of Pakistan, art. 199---Constitutional petition---Quackery, curbing of---Petitioners were dispensers a…
2022 CLC 61 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZULQERNAIN KHURRAM VS PUNJAB HEALTHCARE COMMISSION arts. 117 & 120---Proof of fact---Burden to prove---Scope---One who raises allegation must bring something rational on record showing deviation from due process of law or clearly visible fr…
2022 PLC(CS) 956 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHID MAHMOOD VS ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY BAHAWALPUR S.33---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Quo warranto, writ of---Appointment of Registrar---Scope---Petitioner assailed appointment of respondent as Registrar of th…
2022 PLC(CS) 999 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Hafiz MUHAMMAD KALEEM UD DIN VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Promotion---Pro forma promotion---Post retirement promotion---Scope---Right of promotion of a civil servant cannot be withheld merely on the ground of allegation---Even after retirement, he…
2022 PLC(CS) 999 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Hafiz MUHAMMAD KALEEM UD DIN VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Constitutional petition---Pro forma promotion---Maintainability---Scope---Petitioner, a retired civil servant, sought direction to the department to promote him from his due date---Promotio…
2022 PLC(CS) 1021 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASMA PARVEEN VS The SECRETARY SCHOOL EDUCATION, CIVIL SECRETARIAT LAHORE art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---alternate and efficacious remedy---Contract employment---Master and servant relationship---Remedy of damages---appellant was a…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Retirement date, intimation of---Neither the competent authority nor the civil servant has any right/power to withdraw/modify the date of retirement after…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Leave preparatory to retirement ("LPR")---Scope---LPR was nothing but a kind of service benefit which was provided either in the form of leave or cash in l…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Right to retire/pension, protection of---Locus poenitentiae, doctrine of---Scope---Accrued vested right to retire and receive pension was fully protected u…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Prospective effect of statute---Statute/statutory provision would not apply retrospectively unless it was expressly stipulated in the statute itself.
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Notification of Government Department---Prospective nature of---Administrative instructions/notifications which did not even fall in the category of delega…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Scope---Locus poenitentiae was a power of receding till a decisive step is taken---Doctrine was not a principle of law that an order once passed was irrevo…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Notification of Finance Department---Interpretation of law is purely and exclusively a judicial function under the scheme of trichotomy of power enshrined…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab S.12---Punjab Revised Leave Rules (1981), R. 18---Voluntary retirement---Pension¬---Right to leave preparatory to retirement ("LPR"), availing of---Petitio…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Statutory amendments changing the law---Application, commencement of---Statute changing the law ought not to apply, unless the intention appears with reaso…
2022 PLC(CS) 1156 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAHEEM ZAFAR VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Accountant General, Punjab Inconsistency of legal provisions---Preference of statutory provision on sub-ordinate legislation---Principle---Provisions of the statute preempt the rules…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY Deputation---Scope---No deputationist, by any stretch of imagination and in absence of any specific provision of law, can ask to serve the total…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY S.9---Postings and transfers---Scope---Every civil servant is bound to serve anywhere within or outside the Province in any post under the Gover…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY Deputation---Period of deputation---Scope---Period of deputation can at the best be equated to that of an expression of maximum period which can…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY S.14---Officers of the Board---Scope---Section 14(2) of Punjab Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education Act, 1976, has two parts---First p…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY S. 2(1)(b)---Civil service---Deputation---Scope---Exclusion clause attached to definition provided in S.2(1)(b) of Punjab Civil Servants Act, 19…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY arts. 212 & 199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Deputation---Scope---Order in respect of a deputationist during the period of his…
2022 PLC(CS) 1209 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. SHAMIM AKHTAR VS PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO CHIEF MINISTER PUNJAB, LAHORE/CONTROLLING AUTHORITY S.14---Officers of the Board---Deputationist---Scope---Bare reading of S.14(3) of the Punjab Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education Act,…
2022 PLC(CS) 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. RANA ZEESHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB S.5---Initiation of proceedings---Termination from service---Withholding regular inquiry---Effect---Petitioner challenged order passed by department whereby his services were terminated on account of…
2022 PLC(CS) 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. RANA ZEESHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Misconduct---Termination from service---Withholding regular inquiry---When an employee is to be terminated on the ground of misconduct, which in itself is a stigma, it is mandatory for the department…
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL Creation of post---Scope---Creation of post is within the domain of Executive which authority cannot be assumed by the Court in exercise of constitutional jurisdiction.
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL R.10---Contract Appointment Policy, 2004---Regularization of service---Category of employees---Scope---Respondents were employed on contract basis in medical and health institutions---Services and Gene…
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---Employees are precluded to invoke the constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court.
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL art. 199---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Vol. V, Part-J, R. 4---Constitutional jurisdiction---Pre-admission notice---Scope---By virtue of R. 4 subject to directions of the Court, notice of ever…
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL Regularization of service---Scope---Employee cannot claim regularization of the service as his vested right.
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL art.174---Suits and proceedings---Scope---article 174 of the Constitution ordains that the Federation may sue or be sued by the name of Pakistan and a province may sue or be sued by the name of the Pro…
2022 PLC(CS) 1351 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL VS MUHAMMAD ADEEL art.25---Equality of citizens---Scope---article 25 of the Constitution though guarantees the right of equality of citizens but such right is founded on an intelligible differentia, which distinguished…
2022 PLC(CS) 1399 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NADEEM SADIQ BHATTI VS PRESIDENT NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN Removal from service---Withholding criminal record---Scope---Petitioner laid a challenge to an order whereby his representation against an order of removal from service had been rej…
2022 PLC(CS) 1433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AMJAD ALI SHAH VS DEPUTY CONTROLLER, ADMIN AND PERSONAL-III PTV, ISLAMABAD art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---aggrieved party---"Person"---Scope---aggrieved party can invoke the jurisdiction of High Court under art.199(1)(a) of th…
2022 PLC(CS) 1433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AMJAD ALI SHAH VS DEPUTY CONTROLLER, ADMIN AND PERSONAL-III PTV, ISLAMABAD art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Non-statutory rules of service---Principles detailed.
2022 PLC(CS) 1433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AMJAD ALI SHAH VS DEPUTY CONTROLLER, ADMIN AND PERSONAL-III PTV, ISLAMABAD art.199---Pakistan Essential Services (Maintenance) act (LIII of 1952), S. 6---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Regulation of wages and conditions of…
2022 PLC(CS) 1433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AMJAD ALI SHAH VS DEPUTY CONTROLLER, ADMIN AND PERSONAL-III PTV, ISLAMABAD art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Person---Pakistan Television Corporation Limited PTVC---Scope---Pakistan Television Corporation (PTVC) was founded in 19…
2022 PLC(CS) 1433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AMJAD ALI SHAH VS DEPUTY CONTROLLER, ADMIN AND PERSONAL-III PTV, ISLAMABAD art.199---Constitutional petition---"Person"---Function test---Scope---Courts generally apply what is called the "function test" to determine whether an organiz…
2022 PLC(CS) 1433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AMJAD ALI SHAH VS DEPUTY CONTROLLER, ADMIN AND PERSONAL-III PTV, ISLAMABAD Delegated legislation---"Statutory rules of service"---"Non-statutory rules of service"---Explained.
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