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2022 CLC 1992 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEPCO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VS FAZAL CLOTH MILLS LTD. Even a void order has to be assailed within the period of limitation prescribed under the law.
2022 CLC 1992 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEPCO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VS FAZAL CLOTH MILLS LTD. "Local law"---Connotation.
2022 CLC 1992 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEPCO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VS FAZAL CLOTH MILLS LTD. S.29---Savings---Scope---Where any special or local law prescribes for any suit, appeal or application, a period of limitation different from the period prescribed under the Limitation…
2022 CLC 1992 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEPCO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VS FAZAL CLOTH MILLS LTD. No preferential treatment can be given to government in cases filed beyond the period of limitation.
2022 CLC 1992 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEPCO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VS FAZAL CLOTH MILLS LTD. S.38---Provincial office of inspection---Appeal---Limitation---Scope---Appeal against the order passed by Provincial Office of Inspection can be filed before the National Electric Powe…
2022 CLC 1992 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEPCO CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER VS FAZAL CLOTH MILLS LTD. Each and every day consumed beyond the period of limitation has to be explained.
2022 CLC 2007 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AKHTAR HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD JAMAL arts.168 & 181---appeal, restoration of---Residuary limitation period---Dismissal of petitioner's application for restoration of appeal---application for restoration of earlier application was also dismissed…
2022 CLC 2030 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUMTAZ HUSSAIN VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Ss.371, 372 & 373---Succession certificate, cancellation of---Nominee of service benefits---Uninheritable nature---Scope---Succession certificate was issued in favour of respondent being widow of…
2022 CLC 2045 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CH. MUHAMMAD ASHRAF VS Malik MUHAMMAD MUZAFFAR KHAN S.62---Nomination papers---Scrutiny---Rectification of defects---Scope---Question before Election Tribunal was whether a candidate who had filed nomination papers as per requirement of S.…
2022 CLC 2045 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CH. MUHAMMAD ASHRAF VS Malik MUHAMMAD MUZAFFAR KHAN Proviso---When something is given in a proviso in the law, its purpose has to be seen from the intent of the legislature.
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED S.23---Matters to be considered in determining compensation---Scope---Term "market-value" as employed in S. 23 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 implies the price that a willing purchaser would pa…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED Ss.18& 31---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art.114---Reference to Court---Payment of compensation or deposit of same in Court---Compensation received "under protest"---Estoppel---Scope---Acquiring…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED S.23---Matters to be considered in determining compensation---Scope---Mode for determining the compensation of acquired land is provided in S. 23 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 according to whi…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED If the law provides a mechanism for doing an act, taking an action or initiating certain measures, then the same must be complied with as and when the law provided that thing to be done in that ma…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED Illegality---If base/foundation of any order or action is illegal then whole superstructure built thereupon cannot be sustained.
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED When the law specifies a particular manner and procedure then it is obligatory for the functionary of the State to adhere to the same and comply with it in all respects and any negligence, failure…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED O.XIII, R. 6---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 111, 112, 113, 85, 88 & 89---Endorsements on documents rejected as inadmissible in evidence---Facts which need not be proved---Public documents-…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED S.18---Reference to Court---Scope---acquiring agency assailed order passed by Referee Court whereby compensation of acquired land was enhanced---Validity---Existing status and future potential of…
2022 CLC 2072 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN VS NASIR MUNIR AHMED Preamble---Scope---Preamble to a statute is though not an operational part of the enactment yet it is a gateway, which opens before us the purpose and intent of the legislature, which necessitated…
2022 CLC 2094 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF IQBAL VS ASGHAR ALI GHUMMAN S.12---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell---Temporary injunction, refusal of---Possession of property---Scope---Case of appellant was…
2022 CLC 2094 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF IQBAL VS ASGHAR ALI GHUMMAN O.XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Temporary injunction---Prima facie case---Scope---Words 'prima facie' mean 'at first sight' or 'on the first impression'---Existence of the right of the plaintiff is to be adjudicated…
2022 CLC 2094 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF IQBAL VS ASGHAR ALI GHUMMAN S.12---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXIX, Rr.1 & 2---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell---Temporary injunction---Scope---Agreement to sell does not create any right in respect of th…
2022 CLC 2094 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
KASHIF IQBAL VS ASGHAR ALI GHUMMAN O.XXXIX, Rr.1 & 2---Temporary injunction---Ingredients---Scope---Temporary injunction, by its nature, is a preventive remedy with the object to maintain the status quo and prevent irreparable damage or pre…
2022 CLC 2115 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS Mian MAQBOOL AHMED O.XXXVII Rr.1 & 2---Negotiable Instruments Act (XXVI of 1881), Ss.4 & 118---Negotiable instrument---Proof---Presumption as to negotiable instrument---Admission in cross-examination---Effect---Respondent/pl…
2022 CLC 2115 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS Mian MAQBOOL AHMED S.118-----Term "until the contrary is proved" in Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881---Meaning---Term "until the contrary is proved" in the beginning of S.118 of the Act indicates that it should be the respon…
2022 CLC 2115 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS Mian MAQBOOL AHMED S.118---Presumption as to negotiable instrument---Initial presumption---Onus to prove----Initial presumption is that the negotiable instrument is made, drawn, accepted or introduced for consideration , but…
2022 CLC 2115 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS Mian MAQBOOL AHMED Presumption---Scope---When the law prescribes that presumption shall be attached to a particular fact, the said fact has to be presumed to be true unless otherwise is proved by the party alleging the same.
2022 CLC 2115 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS Mian MAQBOOL AHMED Law would help a person who controverted the controversies, but the one who denied everything, would lose credibility.
2022 CLC 2115 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS Mian MAQBOOL AHMED arts.72, 75 & 79---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXVII, Rr.1 & 2 ---Promissory note---Proving the existence, execution and contents of promissory note---Respondent/plaintiff by proving the existence…
2022 PLD 372 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN RASHEED VS MUHAMMAD MUAZIM S. 24---Relief of specific performance could be extended only on equitable grounds; it could be declined if the court arrived at the conclusion that it was unjust to do so or where the circumstances showed t…
2022 PLD 372 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN RASHEED VS MUHAMMAD MUAZIM art. 189---Leave to appeal---Scope---Order granting and/or refusing leave was not a judgement that would decide a question of law and it should not be followed necessarily/imperatively.
2022 PLD 372 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN RASHEED VS MUHAMMAD MUAZIM S. 24---Balance sale consideration, deposit of---Suit for possession through specific performance---Appellant/plaintiff had allegedly paid earnest money at the time of execution of agreement---Specific notic…
2022 PLD 372 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN RASHEED VS MUHAMMAD MUAZIM S. 24---Balance sale consideration---High Court laid down guidelines for the lower courts to follow in all matters relating to suit for specific performance.
2022 CLC 2126 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHARAT ALI VS SUBEDAR KHAN S.24---Pre-emption---Zar-e-Soim, one Rupee less deposit than that directed---Bona fide mistake---Trial Court rejected the plaint for non-deposit of 1/3rd of the total sale price of the property---District Court…
2022 CLC 2126 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHARAT ALI VS SUBEDAR KHAN Technicalities---Procedural technicalities cannot restrain the court in doing complete justice.
2022 PLD 39 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZARMEEN ABID VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, ISLAMABAD arts. 9, 10a, 13 & 25(2)---National Database and Registration authority Ordinance (VIII of 2000), S. 18---Orphans with unknown parentage---Imaginary parentage---Petitio…
2022 PLD 39 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZARMEEN ABID VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, ISLAMABAD arts. 9, 13 & 25---Right to identity---Scope---Right to identity is a fundamental, non-derogable, independent and autonomous right which is rooted in human dignity and…
2022 PLD 39 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZARMEEN ABID VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, ISLAMABAD Part II, Chapter 1---Fundamental Rights---Fundamental rights, kinds of---"Positive rights" and "negative rights"---Connotation---Positive rights are those that provided…
2022 PLD 39 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZARMEEN ABID VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, ISLAMABAD arts. 14 & 25---International law---Dignity of girls/women---Duty of State---Scope---State, due to its commitments under International Law, has the duty/obligation to e…
2022 PLD 39 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZARMEEN ABID VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, ISLAMABAD arts. 9 &14---Respect for identity---Identity document, denial of---Duty of State---Scope---State must refrain from actively interfering with the individual's identity-…
2022 PLD 39 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZARMEEN ABID VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY, ISLAMABAD art. 9---National identity, guaranty---Vulnerable population, protection of---Guaranteeing a national identity document to those aged 18 and above was integral to ensur…
2022 PLD 384 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUNIR AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Punjab Lahore S. 10---Contract Act (IX of 1872), S. 23---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 3, 37, 38 & 199---Constitutional petition---Army Welfare Scheme---Allotment in violati…
2022 PLD 384 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUNIR AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Punjab Lahore S.10 & Preamble---Government lands---Board of Revenue, role of---Provisions of Colonization of Government Lands (Punjab) Act, 1912, are to make better administra…
2022 PLD 384 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUNIR AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Punjab Lahore S. 10---Government lands, allotment of---Chief Minister---Role---Chief Minister is shown nowhere competent under any provision of Colonization of Government Land…
2022 PCrLJ 1 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAIZAN SALEH VS State Ss. 164, 340 & 243 ---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10A----Punjab Prevention of Gambling Ordinance (VII of 1978) Ss. 5 & 7----Confessional statement, recording of---Right to legal counsel---Conviction and sen…
2022 PCrLJ 30 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
DILAWAR KHAN VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER, POLICE STATION FIA/CC, MULTAN S. 3 & Sched.---Federal Investigation Agency---Jurisdiction---Pre-conditions---Jurisdiction of Federal Investigation Agency is attracted if two conditions are satisfied: f…
2022 PCrLJ 30 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
DILAWAR KHAN VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER, POLICE STATION FIA/CC, MULTAN Purposive construction---Scope---Purposive construction is one of the important ways to give effect to legislative intent.
2022 PCrLJ 30 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
DILAWAR KHAN VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER, POLICE STATION FIA/CC, MULTAN S. 3 & Sched.---Federal Investigation Agency---Jurisdiction---Dispute between private parties---Scope---Federal Investigation Agency does not have jurisdiction in matters…
2022 PCrLJ 30 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
DILAWAR KHAN VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER, POLICE STATION FIA/CC, MULTAN Preamble---Scope---Preamble is part of a statute though not its operative part---Useful guide is provided by preamble to find out legislative intent---Sometimes purpose of…
2022 PCrLJ 30 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
DILAWAR KHAN VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER, POLICE STATION FIA/CC, MULTAN Ss. 420, 468 & 471---Copyright Ordinance (XXXIV of 1962), Ss. 60, 60-A & 67-C---Intellectual Property Organization of Pakistan Act (XXII of 2012), Ss. 13(xviii)(xix)(xx) &…
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