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2022 CLC 294 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
LAHORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY VS HABIB CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LIMITED S.20---arbitration---Duty of Court---Live issue, determination of---Respondent filed application before Trial Court to resolve the dispute by appointment of arbitrator---ap…
2022 CLC 312 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IMRAN SAEED MALIK VS APPELLATE AUTHORITY/CANTT. EXECUTIVE OFFICER S.60(1)(i)---Cantonment Local Government (Election) Rules, 2015, R.17(5) & Form-IV---Nomination papers---Declaration of assets---Object, purpose and scope---Probe and inquiry…
2022 CLC 327 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AYESHA VS ADDITIONAL SESSIONS JUDGE, SIALKOT Ss.39, 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VI, R.17---amendment of plaint---Principles---Suit for cancellation of Hiba (gift) Deed, declaration and injunction was filed by respondent/pl…
2022 CLC 349 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mian IMRAN SAEED VS Mst. SALIMA BIBI S.12(2)---Transfer of Property Act (IV of 1882), S.52---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell--- Transfer of property during pendency of suit---Suit property was decreed by Trial Court in fa…
2022 CLC 364 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY VS PUNJAB PROVINCE through Secretary HUD and PHED Government of the Punjab, Lahore Ss.26 & 27---Punjab Procurement Rules, 2014, R. 38---Technical bid---"Single stage" and "two stage bidding"---Distinction---Rule 38…
2022 CLC 364 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY VS PUNJAB PROVINCE through Secretary HUD and PHED Government of the Punjab, Lahore Ss.26 & 27---Punjab Procurement Rules, 2014, Rr.17, 38 & 67---Technical bid---Disqualification on pre-qualification---Petitioner be…
2022 CLC 379 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS Mian GOHAR MUBASHAR HAMEED S.27-a---Stamp duty---Valuation of property, fixation of---Discretion of parties---Scope---By insertion of S.27-a in Stamp act, 1899, discretion of parties in fixing the valuation of property…
2022 CLC 379 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS Mian GOHAR MUBASHAR HAMEED S.27-a---Valuation Table, notification of---Commencement of effect---Principle---Mandatory requirement for effectiveness / applicability of Valuation Table determining the value of properties…
2022 CLC 379 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS Mian GOHAR MUBASHAR HAMEED O.XIV, R.1---Stamp duty---Valuation Table, notification of---Framing of issues---Petitioners contended that no issue regarding vires of Valuation Table was framed on which the appellate court…
2022 CLC 379 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS Mian GOHAR MUBASHAR HAMEED S.27-a---Stamp duty---Valuation Table, notification of---"Duly notified", meaning of---Respondent challenged the notice issued by the petitioners for recovery of a mount being the deficient s…
2022 CLC 379 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS Mian GOHAR MUBASHAR HAMEED S.27-a---Valuation of property, fixation of---Term "notify"---Connotation---Term "notify" meant to give notice, proclaim or publish in any recognized manner.
2022 CLC 391 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QAISER-UR-REHMAN VS CIVIL JUDGE Ss.8 & 9---Constitutional petition---Date of hearing to be carefully noted---Suit for dissolution of marriage, dowry articles, maintenance---Right of petitioner/defendant to file written statement was closed…
2022 CLC 391 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QAISER-UR-REHMAN VS CIVIL JUDGE art.10a---Family Courts act (XXXV of 1964), Ss. 8 & 9---Opportunity to file written statement---Scope---Right to fair trial only guarantees a fair opportunity to a defendant to defend himself in a trial for t…
2022 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AZHAR ABBAS HAIDERI VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB art. 19---Freedom of speech---Scope---article 19 of the Constitution, which provides freedom of speech, is subject to any reasonable restriction imposed by law in the interest of the glory of…
2022 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AZHAR ABBAS HAIDERI VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB art. 20---Freedom to profess religion and to manage religious institutions---Scope---article 20 of the Constitution forms the part of Chapter 1, Part-II of the Constitution comprising of funda…
2022 PLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AZHAR ABBAS HAIDERI VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB S. 5---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 20 & 199---Freedom to profess religion and to manage religious institutions---Power to control suspected persons---Discretionary jurisdiction of Deputy C…
2022 CLC 404 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM ULLAH VS GHULAM HASSAN art.10a---Right of hearing of a party to lis was one of the fundamental principles of jurisprudence which is guaranteed by art.10a of the Constitution in its assurance of a "fair trial and due process" to a lit…
2022 CLC 404 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM ULLAH VS GHULAM HASSAN S.12(2)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.10A---Decree on basis of compromise---Application of petitioner for setting aside decree on basis of fraud was dismissed by appellate/decreeing Court without framing issu…
2022 PLC 44 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Secretary, Irrigation Department, Jhang VS SAJJAD NASEEM S.33---Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S.1---Redress of individual grievances---Scope---Department assailed o…
2022 PLC 55 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IMRAN VS AGRITECH LIMITED through Chief Executive S.58---appeal---Limitation---Scope---Petitioner called in question the order passed by Full Bench of National Industrial Relations Commission (NIRC) whereby the appeal filed by him…
2022 PLC 79 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PACKAGES LIMITED through Factory Manager/Personnel Manager VS PUNJAB LABOUR APPELLATE TRIBUNAL S.33---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 113---Redress of individual grievances---Facts admitted need not be proved---Delay in sending grievanc…
2022 PLC 141 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ENGINEER BISMILLAH KAKAR VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN, through Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Production Servant not governed by statutory rules---Scope---Where a service grievance was agitated by person/employee, who was not governed b…
2022 PLC 141 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ENGINEER BISMILLAH KAKAR VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN, through Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Production art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---alternate remedy in a special law---Scope---Where a special law provides a right and a corr…
2022 PLC 141 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ENGINEER BISMILLAH KAKAR VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN, through Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Production art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Investigation and appreciation of evidence---Scope---Extra-ordinary constitutional jurisdic…
2022 PLC 141 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ENGINEER BISMILLAH KAKAR VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN, through Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Production Ss.1(3)(b), 2(ix)(e), 2(xxxiii), 3, 17 & 33---Petitioner initially appointed as Deputy Manager in regional office of Pakistan Indus…
2022 PLC 162 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
EFU LIFE INSURANCE LIMITED VS LABOUR APPELLATE TRIBUNAL S.15---Insurance Ordinance (XXXIX of 2000), S. 122---Claims arising out of deductions from wages or delay in payment of wages and penalty for malicious or vexatious claims---Group insu…
2022 PLC 167 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SANA SOHAIL KHAN VS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION S.2(xxxiii)---"Workman", determination of---Principle---Designation of a person cannot be considered a factor for determining status of employment in an establishment to be that o…
2022 PLC 167 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SANA SOHAIL KHAN VS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION Ss.2(xxxiii) & 54---Qanun-e-Shahadat (X of 1984), Arts.117 & 120---"Workman"---Proof---Onus to prove---Shifting of onus, principle of---Applicability---Petitioner was employee of…
2022 PLC 167 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SANA SOHAIL KHAN VS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION appreciation of evidence---Principle---To reach a just conclusion in matter, entire evidence is to be read as a whole and not in piecemeal---Case should not be decided merely by r…
2022 PLC 180 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CRESCENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST VS REGISTRAR OF TRADE UNIONS LAHORE S.1(3)(h)---Expression 'Commercial basis', definition of---Scope---In the context of Punjab Industrial Relations Act, 2010, the term commercial has to be seen as connoting trade…
2022 PLC 180 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CRESCENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST VS REGISTRAR OF TRADE UNIONS LAHORE Ss.24 & 1(3)(h)---Income Tax Ordinance (XLIX of 2001), S.100C---Collective Bargaining Agent---Educational institution---'Commercial basis', meaning of---Scope---Petitioner/Estab…
2022 PLC 180 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CRESCENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST VS REGISTRAR OF TRADE UNIONS LAHORE S.1(3)(h)---Educational institution---Scope---Institutions providing education are exempt from applicability of Punjab Industrial Relations Act, 2010, under S. 1(3)(h) but this…
2022 PLC 180 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CRESCENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST VS REGISTRAR OF TRADE UNIONS LAHORE S.100C---Tax credit for charitable organizations---Scope---One of the persons to whom the provision of S.100C, Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 applies is a trust---Subsection (2) of…
2022 PLC 180 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CRESCENT EDUCATIONAL TRUST VS REGISTRAR OF TRADE UNIONS LAHORE art.199---Punjab Industrial Relations act (XIX of 2010), Ss. 24 & 1(3)(h)---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Collective Bargaining agent, certification of---Locus sta…
2022 PLC 206 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS SAJIDA ZAHEER Directory or mandatory provision, determination of---Scope---Integral test while determining whether a provision in a statute is directory or mandatory in nature is to ascertain the legislative intent and…
2022 PLC 206 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS SAJIDA ZAHEER S.46---awards and decisions of Labour Court---Scope---Respondent filed a grievance petition before the Labour Court against her termination, which was accepted ex parte---Petitioners filed an appeal befor…
2022 PLC 206 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS SAJIDA ZAHEER Constitutional Courts are under an obligation to give effect to statutory law as opposed to interpreting text in such a manner that it renders provisions of law redundant---No provision of the instrument…
2022 PLC 206 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS SAJIDA ZAHEER When a statute provides an act to be done in a particular manner or form, it must be performed in such manner alone as nobody should try to be wiser than law, otherwise the same would be termed as illegal…
2022 PLC 206 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB VS SAJIDA ZAHEER Words and phrases used in the Constitution and statutes should be read keeping in view their plain meaning and the Courts while interpreting the provision of a statute are required to remain within the in…
2022 CLC 414 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik ALLAH DITTA VS MEMBER BOARD OF REVENUE/(JUDICIAL-V)/ CHIEF SETTLEMENT COMMISSIONER/NOTIFIED OFFICER, PUNJAB, LAHORE S.3---Transfer of State land--- Private treaty--- Transfer of land in question was settled between private parties thr…
2022 CLC 433 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KHANAI VS GHULAM RASOOL Ss.2 & 54---Punjab Land Revenue Act (XVII of 1967), S.42---Punjab Land Revenue Rules, 1968, R.34---Suit for declaration and injunction---Oral gift---Proof---Suit was filed by respondent/ plaintiff assailed mutat…
2022 CLC 463 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JAMSHED IQBAL CHEEMA VS The ELECTION APPELLATE TRIBUNAL Ss.2(xli), 27 & 60---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Enrollment in electoral roll---Pre-conditions---Nomination papers of petitioner/candidate were reject…
2022 CLC 463 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JAMSHED IQBAL CHEEMA VS The ELECTION APPELLATE TRIBUNAL Preamble---Scope---Preamble to a statute is though not an operational part of enactment but it is a gateway, which opens before Court the purpose and intent of the Legislature, which n…
2022 CLC 463 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JAMSHED IQBAL CHEEMA VS The ELECTION APPELLATE TRIBUNAL S.62(6)---Electoral roll, correctness of---Returning Officer---Jurisdiction---Such is beyond the competence of Returning Officer to go into the question of correctness or validity of a…
2022 CLC 463 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JAMSHED IQBAL CHEEMA VS The ELECTION APPELLATE TRIBUNAL Legislature, intention of---Scope---Interpretation that where intention of the Legislature is clear and the object for which law has been enacted, Courts are not allowed to interpret s…
2022 CLC 463 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JAMSHED IQBAL CHEEMA VS The ELECTION APPELLATE TRIBUNAL Proviso---Scope---Proviso added to an enactment to qualify or create an exception to what is in the enactment---Ordinarily, a proviso is not interpreted as stating a general rule--- Pr…
2022 CLC 492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SADIQ RASHEED VS Mst. UZMA RIZWAN S.43---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 9---Civil Court, jurisdiction of---Ousting clause---Applicability---Respondent/plaintiff filed three suits for declaration alleging that suit property belonged to…
2022 CLC 492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SADIQ RASHEED VS Mst. UZMA RIZWAN S.9---Civil Court, exclusive jurisdiction of---Civil Courts had the exclusive/ultimate jurisdiction to declare the rights, title and status of a person/property.
2022 CLC 492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SADIQ RASHEED VS Mst. UZMA RIZWAN Preamble and S. 22---Object and scope---If a property was purchased in the name of a person who according to his social status was unable to have purchased any property by his own means, if such property wa…
2022 CLC 507 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ASHRAF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Ss.17-a & 14---Suit for maintenance---Interim maintenance, fixation of---appeal---Scope---When application for fixing interim maintenance allowance is dismissed, the same attains finality at leas…
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