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2022 MLD 1745 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TUFAIL MUHAMMAD VS NAZAR HUSSAIN art.113---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 12---Suit for specific performance---Limitation---Scope---article 113 of the Limitation act, 1908, provides three years' limitation from the date fixed for the p…
2022 CLC 1328 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SALMAN SHAHID VS UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, through Chairman, Board of Governors and Boards of Trustees art.199---University of Management and Technology, Lahore act (XV of 2004), Ss. 9, 13 & 14---Constitutional petition filed…
2022 MLD 1762 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF MAHMOOD VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.17a(3)---Maintenance---annual increase in maintenance---Scope---Provision of S.17a(3) creates a new statutory right of automatic increase in the maintenance fixed by the Court in cases where ann…
2022 MLD 1762 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF MAHMOOD VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Presumption against retroactivity---Scope---In the absence of any stipulation to the contrary, any change in law affecting substantive rights has prospective effect---Prospective statute operates…
2022 MLD 1762 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF MAHMOOD VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.17a(3)---Maintenance---annual increase in maintenance---Scope---Subsection (3) of S.17a of the Family Courts act, 1964 is a provision, the application whereof is conditional upon failure or omis…
2022 MLD 1762 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF MAHMOOD VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.5, Sched.---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts.9 & 14---Suit for maintenance---Enhancement of maintenance---Grounds and scope---Entitlement to maintenance of wife and children is not only a right re…
2022 MLD 1777 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TAHIR PERVAIZ VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Principle---When law requires an act to be done in a particular manner and after fulfilment of certain requirements then it must be done in the very manner and after fulfilment of the very condit…
2022 MLD 1777 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TAHIR PERVAIZ VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB S.18-B---Cooperative Societies Election Rules, Rr.9(iii) & 9(iv)---Election---"Limine control", doctrine of---Proxy of the candidates/petitioners submitted the nomination papers on their behalf--…
2022 MLD 1784 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NAZAR ABBAS VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE O.II, R.6-a---Consolidation of suits ----Petitioner instituted suit for declaration challenging mutation against the respondent, whereas respondent instituted a suit for specific performance agreemen…
2022 MLD 1797 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WING COMMANDER (R) GUL ABBAS MELA VS COL. (RETD.) IHTISHAM ANWAR S.3---Contempt of Court---Execution of order passed by High Court in constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---Petitioner sought initiation of contempt proceedings against the res…
2022 MLD 1805 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM SHABBIR alias SHABOO VS State S.9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.342---Possession of Narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Incriminating material was not put to the accused during his examination---Ef…
2022 MLD 1805 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM SHABBIR alias SHABOO VS State S.342---Statement of accused under S.342, Cr.P.C.---Scope---Statement of accused under S.342, Cr.P.C., was not a mere formality rather it was a bounden duty of the Trial Court to question the accused on…
2022 MLD 1825 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS YASEEN Duty of Court---When a Court becomes ceased of a matter, it is the bounden duty of the Court to decide the actual dispute by means of all permissible procedures and methods.
2022 MLD 1825 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS YASEEN S.9---abadi Deh---Ownership, question of---Demarcation---Shajra abadi and Khasra abadi records---Suit for the possession along with permanent injunction was filed by petitioners---Respondents contended that they were ow…
2022 MLD 1825 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS YASEEN S.115---Revisional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---Discretionary nature---Revisional jurisdiction of the High Court is always discretionary and equitable in nature and no party is entitled to it as of right---High…
2022 MLD 1848 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHALID MEHMOOD VS State Ss.302, 324, 337-F(iii) & 449---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in-…
2022 MLD 1848 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHALID MEHMOOD VS State Ss.302, 324, 337-F(iii) & 449---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in-…
2022 MLD 1848 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHALID MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302, 324, 337-F(iii) & 449---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in…
2022 MLD 1848 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHALID MEHMOOD VS State Ss.302, 324, 337-F(iii) & 449---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in-…
2022 MLD 1848 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHALID MEHMOOD VS State Ss.302, 324, 337-F(iii) & 449---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction---F…
2022 MLD 1848 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KHALID MEHMOOD VS State Ss.302, 324, 337-F(iii) & 449---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in-…
2022 MLD 1873 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RASHID IQBAL VS CHANCELLOR BAHAUDIN ZAKARIA UNIVERSITY, MULTAN S.11-a---Constitution of Pakistan, arts. 4, 10-a & 14---Revisional powers of the Chancellor---Right of individuals to be dealt in accordance with law---Right to fair trial---Inv…
2022 MLD 1873 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RASHID IQBAL VS CHANCELLOR BAHAUDIN ZAKARIA UNIVERSITY, MULTAN art.10-a---Right to fair trial---Scope---Person is directly affected by something, connotes, that he is affected without being protected by any intervening cushion that softens…
2022 MLD 1873 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RASHID IQBAL VS CHANCELLOR BAHAUDIN ZAKARIA UNIVERSITY, MULTAN S.11-a---Revisional powers of the Chancellor---Scope---Proviso to S.11-a of the Baha-ud-Din Zakariya University act, 1975, was added subsequently after the promulgation of the a…
2022 MLD 1873 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RASHID IQBAL VS CHANCELLOR BAHAUDIN ZAKARIA UNIVERSITY, MULTAN art.10-a---Right to fair trial---Scope---Fairness requires that a person who may be adversely affected by a decision will of course be allowed to make submissions in his defence…
2022 MLD 1900 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FALAK SHER VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB arts. 4, 9, 10a, 12, 13 & 14---Maxim Nullum crimen sine lege (No crime without law)--- Principle of legality---Scope---Nullum crimen sine lege has constitutional significance and is a feature of all hu…
2022 MLD 1900 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FALAK SHER VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB Nullum crimen sine lege (No crime without law) and nulla poena sine lege (no punishment without law)---Scope---Nullum crimen sine lege (No crime without law) is one of the fundamental principles of cri…
2022 MLD 1900 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FALAK SHER VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB S.116-a & Twelfth Schedule [as substituted by Provincial Motor Vehicles (amendment) act (XV of 2009)]--- Constitution of Pakistan, art. 199--- Constitutional petition--- E-Ticketing--- Procedure---Punj…
2022 MLD 1900 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FALAK SHER VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB Crime and punishment---Scope---Interest of society is that every crime should be punished--- Punishment may be in the form of imprisonment or fine or both---In some cases law may also provide for forfe…
2022 MLD 1922 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FATIMA NADEEM VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB arts.25 & 37(c)---Educational Institution---admission in medical college---Improved marks---Discrimination---Principles of policy---access to technical and professional education---Petitioners were ag…
2022 MLD 1922 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FATIMA NADEEM VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court---Protection of fundamental right---Citizen not present before Court---Effect---High Court in exercising Constitutional jurisdiction under art.199,…
2022 PLD 319 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WAQAS alias KASHI VS State S. 540---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10-A---Summoning of witness---Object and scope---Due process and right of fair trial---Provision of S.540, Cr.P.C. is an exception to adversarial system and attempt to make…
2022 PLD 319 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WAQAS alias KASHI VS State Ss. 540 & 439---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 150---Revision---Witness, summoning of---Word 'may' and 'shall'---Scope---Witness, status of---Question to own witness---Principle---Accused was aggrieved of sum…
2022 CLC 1368 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM RASUL VS JAVED AHMAD S.22---Plaintiff may be called on to make deposit or to file security---Scope---Where the decretal amount was deposited by the plaintiff and the possession was also delivered to him then the question of non-depos…
2022 CLC 1368 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM RASUL VS JAVED AHMAD Vol.IV, Chap. 16, Part-D, Cl.(4)---Custody of judicial records---Scope---If any document or part of record is subsequently found missing, the Presiding Officer of the Court shall immediately take action for its r…
2022 CLC 1368 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM RASUL VS JAVED AHMAD Principle that acts or omissions of a Court do not injure a litigant is a truism by now.
2022 MLD 1938 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QURESHI TEXTILE MILLS LIMITED VS DISTRICT COUNCIL, CHAK SHAHANA ROAD, KHANEWAL S.115 & Entry No. 2, Part II, Third Schedule---Taxes to be levied---Fees for license, sanctions and permits granted by the District Council---Scope---Petitioners…
2022 MLD 1938 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QURESHI TEXTILE MILLS LIMITED VS DISTRICT COUNCIL, CHAK SHAHANA ROAD, KHANEWAL S.115 & Entry No. 2, Part II, Third Schedule---Taxes to be levied---Fees for license, sanctions and permits granted by the District Council---Scope---Held, in or…
2022 MLD 1945 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AZIZAN BIBI VS NASIR MEHMOOD S.42---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 76, 79 & 113---Suit for possession, specific performance and permanent injunction filed by respondent alleging that the petitioner agreed to sell the subject prop…
2022 MLD 1945 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AZIZAN BIBI VS NASIR MEHMOOD art.76---"Marked" document---Not duly submitted---Scope---Relying upon marked documents would be illegal.
2022 MLD 1945 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AZIZAN BIBI VS NASIR MEHMOOD S.115---Revision---Concurrent findings---Revisional jurisdiction---Scope---Concurrent findings recorded on facts, when do not suffer from any misreading and non-reading of evidence, howsoever erroneous, can…
2022 MLD 1955 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHIR AHMAD VS SHAHID NADEEM S.118---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts.84, 117 & 118---Cheque---Signatures, non-denial of---Recovery of amount---Suit was filed by the respondent---Petitioner's/defendant's leave to appear/defend was accep…
2022 MLD 1955 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHIR AHMAD VS SHAHID NADEEM art.10a---Negotiable instrument/cheque---Direction for expeditious trial---Scope---High Court's direction qua conclusion of case proceedings within the time period---Scope---Direction of High Court as to conclu…
2022 MLD 1955 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHIR AHMAD VS SHAHID NADEEM S.118---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts.117 & 118---Cheque---Presumption, nature of---Burden of proof---Scope---Until the contrary was proved, it had, inter alia, to be presumed that every negotiable instru…
2022 MLD 1982 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SOHAIL LIAQAT VS Mst. SALMA SHAHEEN S.5, Sched---Badl-e-Kulha----Special condition/Undertaking in column No.16 of nikahnama to transfer house to wife---Enforcement of such special condition---Scope---Nikahnama was produced by wife and from…
2022 MLD 1995 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KASHIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.5, Sched---Quantum of maintenance for minor---Pervious maintenance of wife---Summoning of witness---Wife and minor (respondents) filed suit for recovery of maintenance allowance, dowry articles…
2022 MLD 1995 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KASHIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.5, Sched----Power of Family Court to summon any witness---Family Court was empowered to adopt any way/procedure for the ends of justice which was not against the principles of natural justice t…
2022 MLD 1995 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KASHIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Preamble---Qanun-e-Shahadat, (10 of 1984), Art.129----Although the provisions of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984 were not as such applicable to the proceedings of family cases, yet the Family Courts A…
2022 MLD 1995 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KASHIF VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE art.199---Concurrent findings of fact of two Courts below could not be disturbed in writ petition unless there was some jurisdictional error or defect pointed out by petitioner.
2022 MLD 2006 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Munshi INTIZAR HUSSAIN alias GAPPU VS State S.345---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S.302---Qatl-i-amd---Compounding of offence---Scope---Surviving legal heirs of a deceased are quite competent to effect compromise within the meaning of S. 345, C…
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