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2022 MLD 70 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IFTIKHAR ALI VS State S.540---Power of court to summon material witness or examine person present---Scope---Petitioner, an accused in private complaint, assailed order passed by trial court declining the summoning of two witnesses of challa…
2022 MLD 101 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NOOR MUHAMMAD KHAN VS State S.497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 324, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, armed with deadly weapon, common object---Bail, refusal of---Prompt FIR---Recovery of weapon---A…
2022 MLD 106 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS State S.497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss.302, 148, 149 & 427---Qatl-i-amd, rioting, armed with deadly weapon, common object, mischief causing damage to the amount of rupees fifty---Bail, refusal of---Prompt FIR---Scope-…
2022 MLD 106 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS State S.497---Bail---Tentative assessment---Scope---Evidence or material brought on record is not to be appreciated in its minute details rather the same is to be taken view of tentatively.
2022 MLD 112 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AMJAD SIDDIQUE VS SNGPL Ss.6 & 29---Complaints and suits for default before Gas Utility Courts---Procedure---Scope---Petitioner sought order restraining the Gas company/respondent (company) from en-cashing the Bank guarantee---Validity---Ba…
2022 MLD 121 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh GOODS TRANSPORT COMPANY VS NATIONAL FERTILIZER MARKETING LTD. O.XVI, R. 1---"Cards on the table"---Principle---Object of R.1(1) of O.XVI, Civil Procedure Code, 1908 was that no one should be taken by surprise in the course of the tri…
2022 MLD 121 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh GOODS TRANSPORT COMPANY VS NATIONAL FERTILIZER MARKETING LTD. O.XVI, R.1 & S.115---Revisional jurisdiction---Application allowed to produce witness not mentioned in the list of witnesses---Interim order---Expression "case decided"---…
2022 MLD 121 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh GOODS TRANSPORT COMPANY VS NATIONAL FERTILIZER MARKETING LTD. S.115---Revisional jurisdiction---Interlocutory order---Scope---No absolute bar existed against entertaining revisional jurisdiction against an interlocutory order.
2022 MLD 121 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh GOODS TRANSPORT COMPANY VS NATIONAL FERTILIZER MARKETING LTD. O.XVI, R.1---Suit for damages---Respondent's/plaintiff's application seeking permission to produce witness was allowed by Trial Court---Petitioner/defendant contended that…
2022 MLD 121 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh GOODS TRANSPORT COMPANY VS NATIONAL FERTILIZER MARKETING LTD. O.XVI, R.1---List of witnesses---Omission to mention name of witness---Granting permission to produce witness at belated stage---"Good cause" and "reasons to be recorded"-…
2022 MLD 121 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh GOODS TRANSPORT COMPANY VS NATIONAL FERTILIZER MARKETING LTD. S.115---Revisional jurisdiction---Scope---"Case decided"---Words and phrases---Expression "case decided" was not necessarily confined to a final order, rather it may, in p…
2022 MLD 137 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHBAZ VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary,Punjab First right of refusal---Matching of bid---Parties participated in auction of lease hold rights of an amusement park which was already in possession of respondent---Petit…
2022 CLC 1137 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AKRAM VS MUHAMMAD ASIF O.VIII, R.6 & 10---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts.76 & 77---Suit for recovery---Cheque dishonoured---Counter claim/set-off---Right to file replication/rejoinder---Leave to appear/defend was allowed---Res…
2022 CLC 1137 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AKRAM VS MUHAMMAD ASIF arts.76 & 77---Secondary evidence as to the existence/conditions / contents of documents could be given in limited circumstances---Condition to produce the secondary evidence was the notice to the party in wh…
2022 CLC 1137 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AKRAM VS MUHAMMAD ASIF O.VIII, R.6---Set-off to surviveafter failure of the claim of the plaintiff---Claim of set-off would survive even if the claim of the plaintiff broke down for any reason.
2022 CLC 1137 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AKRAM VS MUHAMMAD ASIF O.VIII, R. 6---Counter claim to be considered as set-off---Jurisdiction of court---Although a counter claim was neither a legal set-off nor an equitable set-off, however, no law precluded a Court from treatin…
2022 MLD 155 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TARIQ MAHMOOD VS VICE-CHANCELLOR, UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB, LAHORE art.199---Constitutional petition---Educational Institution---Quashing of result card---Limitation---Scope---Petitioner assailed order passed by University whereby his resul…
2022 MLD 170 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ASHRAF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---High Court ordinarily is not inclined to interfere with the findings of fact recorded by the courts below, particularly when they are not shown to…
2022 MLD 170 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ASHRAF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.7---Talaq (divorce)---Non-issuance of talaq certificate---Effect---Petitioner (ex-husband of deceased) assailed the dismissal of his application for revocation of succession certificate issued…
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State S.302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Un-natural conduct of eyewitnesses---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the wife of complainant by inflicting churri blows---Motive b…
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State S.302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of blood stained churri from the accused---Reliance---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the wife of complainant by inflicti…
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State S.302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive was not proved---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the wife of complainant by inflicting churri blows---Motive behind the occ…
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Single circumstance creating doubt is enough to extend benefit of same to the accused which too not as a matter of grace but as a matter of right.
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State Medical evidence---Scope---Medical evidence might confirm the other available evidence with regard to the seat and nature of injuries, the kind of weapon used and the time of occurrence but it would not itself identify th…
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State S.302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Presence of eye-witnesses at the spot was doubted---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the wife of complainant by inflicting churri b…
2022 MLD 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UMER ZAIB VS State S.302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Medical evidence---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the wife of complainant by inflicting churri blows---Another discrepant feature…
2022 MLD 212 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ABBAS VS Raja MUHAMMAD ISHAQ S.13---Notice---Due service---Proof---Mere sending of notice would not suffice on making Talb-e-Ishhad---Vendee must be apprised about the intentions of pre-emptor---Notice should be served upon the ven…
2022 MLD 212 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ABBAS VS Raja MUHAMMAD ISHAQ S.13---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 17 & 18---Talb-e-Muwathibat and Talb-e-Ishhad---Proof---Improvement, effects of---Respondent's suit for pre-emption was dismissed by Trial Court but in appeal…
2022 MLD 212 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ABBAS VS Raja MUHAMMAD ISHAQ S.13---Service of notice, denial of---Duty of pre-emptor---Where Talb-e-Ishhad was disputed and receipt of notice of Talbe-e-Ishhad was denied, it was for the pre-emptor to prove through credible eviden…
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR O.V, Rr.16, 18, 19 & O.IX, R.13---Inheritance---Ex-parte decree passed without recording evidence---Notice, service of---Application of petitioners (sister of respondents/plaintiffs) for setting aside ex-par…
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR O.V, Rr. 16, 17, 18 & 19---Phrase "duly served" meant the service as required by law.
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR arts. 164 & 181---Ex-parte decree---application for setting aside ex-parte decree was to be submitted within a period of 30 days from the date of decree or, where summons was not duly served, when the applic…
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR O.V, Rr.17 & 19---Due service---Presumption---Where service of summons was denied and Process Server had nowhere stated in his report that copy of the summons was delivered to the defendant, the presumption…
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR O.VI, R.15 & O.IX, R. 6---Ex-parte proceedings---Recording of evidence---Plaint not duly verified---Scope---If plaint was not verified on oath or verified through solemn affirmation before a person authorize…
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR Principles of natural justice had to be read in each and every statute unless and until it was prohibited by the wording of the statute itself---Law favoured adjudication of lis on merit and not on mere tech…
2022 MLD 250 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ZOHRAN BIBI VS GHULAM QADIR O.V, Rr.17, 19 & O.IX, R. 6---Due service---Proof---For defending an ex-parte proceedings and decree the plaintiff had to produce the process server to prove due service when the service was denied by the de…
2022 MLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TANVEER VS State S.497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 302---Juvenile Justice System Act (XXII of 2018), S. 6---Qatl-i-amd---Bail, grant of---Release of a juvenile on bail---Contradiction in ocular and medical evidence---Delay In co…
2022 MLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TANVEER VS State S.6---Release of a juvenile on bail---Scope---Section 6(5) of the Juvenile Justice System Act, 2018, provides that the juvenile will be entitled to be released on bail if he has been detained for a continuous perio…
2022 MLD 278 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TANVEER VS State S.497---Bail---Delay in conclusion of trial---Scope---Where a case on statutory delay in conclusion of trial is made out then ordinarily bail should not be refused on hypertechnical grounds.
2022 MLD 300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. ISLAM ULLAH KHAN LODHI VS CAPITAL CITY POLICE OFFICER art.199---Constitutional petition---Custody of minor---Scope---Ordinarily, a writ for the recovery of minors is not found to be competent against mother when there is no element of i…
2022 MLD 300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. ISLAM ULLAH KHAN LODHI VS CAPITAL CITY POLICE OFFICER Custody of minors---Scope---Mother amongst all persons is the best person entitled to the custody of minor children during the connubial relationship as well as after its dissolution…
2022 MLD 300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Dr. ISLAM ULLAH KHAN LODHI VS CAPITAL CITY POLICE OFFICER art.199---Habeas corpus petition---Custody of minor---Scope---Petitioner craved for recovery and custody of his two daughters, one of them aged about five and half years and the othe…
2022 MLD 323 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE "Interlocutory"---Meaning.
2022 MLD 323 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.12---Interlocutory order for production of minor---Interim protection of person and property---Scope---Section 12 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, empowers the Court to direct a perso…
2022 MLD 323 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.12---Interlocutory order for production of minor---Interim protection of person and property---Scope---Order passed under S. 12 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, is always dependent up…
2022 MLD 323 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE "Interim"---Meaning.
2022 MLD 323 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.12---Interlocutory order for production of minor---Interim protection of person and property---Scope---Order of temporary custody of the minor being interim in nature would be subject to d…
2022 MLD 323 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HASSAN ARIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.12---Interlocutory order for production of minor---Interim protection of person and property---Scope---Section 12 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890, provides that the Guardian Court can…
2022 MLD 350 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALLAH YAR VS State Ss.324 & 337-F(vi)---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-munaqqillah---appreciation of evidence---Constitution of offence under S.324, P.P.C.----Injuries on non-vital put of lady---Scope---Ocular account corroborat…
2022 MLD 350 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALLAH YAR VS State Ss.324 & 337-F(vi)---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-munaqqillah---appreciation of evidence---Ocular account corroborated by medical evidence---Scope---accused was charged that he made firing upon the complaina…
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