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2022 PTD 1942 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
The COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, ZONE-II, REGIONAL TAX OFFICE, LAHORE VS SHAZIA ZAFAR Fiscal statute---Applicability---All fiscal statutes apply prospectively unless specifically and expressly provided otherwise. Ss.111, 122 & 133---Unexpla…
2022 PLD 715 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Syed AHMAD SHER VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Relief---Effective date---Generally speaking, in civil litigation, the entitlement to any relief covers the period commencing accrual of the cause of action---Such entitlement may, however, be co…
2022 PLD 721 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AFZAL AHMAD VS CITY POLICE OFFICER, FAISALABAD art. 18-a---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 551---Transfer of investigation---Powers of superior officers of police---Transfer of Investigating Officer---Scope. S. 173---Constitution of…
2022 PLD 730 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PERVAIZ AKHTAR VS LAND ACQUISITION COLLECTOR S. 23---Matters to be considered in determining compensation---Scope---Land owner is entitled for compensation and not the market value. S. 23---Matters to be considered in determining compensati…
2022 PLD 756 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Hafiz AWAIS ZAFAR VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, LAHORE Chap. 1 [Arts. 8 to 28]---Fundamental rights---Scope---Not imperative that every right should be enumerated as a fundamental right in the Constitution---Such can be claimed that even if it for…
2022 PLD 766 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HAQ VS AKRAM-UL-HAQ S. 4---Nature of proceeding---Duty of Court---Scope---Partition suits were different from the other civil suits as in partition suits parties had already established their right of ownership in the property---Main…
2022 PLD 773 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MEERA SHAFI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Judicial review---Doctrine of judicial review postulates that the courts exercise judicial power of the State and are entitled to examine and decide: (a) the con…
2022 PLD 817 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUBASHAR JAVED VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Ss. 30(1) & 126---Elected representatives of the local government elected on 01-01-2017 under the Punjab Local Government Act, 2013 ('Act of 2013') for a period of five years---Term of office---Scope---W…
2022 PLD 833 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SAFIA BEGUM VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Preamble & S. 37---Guardian certificate of person/property of mentally disordered child---Inventory of moveable and immovable properties, furnishing of---Petitioner/widow of police officer was declar…
2022 PLD 840 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MARRIAM BIBI VS AZHAR IQBAL S. 17-a(1)(4)---Final and interim maintenance, fixation of---Duty of Family Court---Family Court to adopt objective approach and broadly look into social status of parties, earning of husband / father, his capaci…
2022 PLD 840 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MARRIAM BIBI VS AZHAR IQBAL Maintenance---Scope---In Islamic law, father is under legal, moral and religious obligation to maintain his children till the age specified by law/sharia---Such obligation originates from dictates of the Holy Qur…
2022 PLD 840 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MARRIAM BIBI VS AZHAR IQBAL art. 4---Rights of individuals---Dealing in accordance with law---Such practice is deep rooted in custom and usage of law and it cannot be overlooked and disregarded by any Court. Head Notes
2022 PLD 840 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MARRIAM BIBI VS AZHAR IQBAL S.3 & Preamble---Family Court---Mandate---Family Court so established under S. 3 of Family Courts Act, 1964 has been conferred clear mandate for expeditious settlement and disposal of family disputes and related…
2022 PLD 840 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MARRIAM BIBI VS AZHAR IQBAL Ss. 5 & 17-a(1)(4)---Maintenance, fixation of---Preconditions---Question was with regard to fixation of maintenance allowance for minor child by Family Court and maintained by Lower appellate Court---Validity---F…
2022 PLD 840 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MARRIAM BIBI VS AZHAR IQBAL Procedural laws---Scope---Procedural laws are enacted to advance cause of justice and not to thwart the same, which intent of law is always aimed at welfare of its subjects. Head Notes
2022 PLD 84 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MERCK SHARP AND DHOME CORPORATION VS HILTON PHARMA (PRIVATE) LIMITED O.XXV, R.1---Security for costs, imposition of---Principle---Court can make an order for security of costs at any stage of the suit---Such order can be made either on appl…
2022 PLD 84 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MERCK SHARP AND DHOME CORPORATION VS HILTON PHARMA (PRIVATE) LIMITED O. XXV, R. 1---Security for costs---Quantum, determination of---Suit for permanent injunction was filed by petitioner/plaintiff to restrain defendants/respondents from com…
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI S. 91, O.VI, Rr. 2 & 5, O.VII, R. 11---Public and private nuisance---Institution of suit without prior permission of Advocate-General in writing---Suit for permanent/mandatory injunctions---Alleged il…
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI S. 91---Private nuisance---Scope---If complained conduct amounts to private nuisance, the permission of Advocate-General was immaterial. Head Notes
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI Nuisance---Permission from local authorities---No justification---Scope---Subsequent permissions from the local authority could not always justify nuisance nor could it be taken as a licence to create…
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI S. 91---Suit with consent of advocate-General---Scope---Suit by advocate-General or with his consent was primarily a representation of people in the locality or people concerned. Head Notes
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI S. 91---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 133---Public and private nuisance---Cause of action---Special damage---Scope---One act that was crime under S. 133, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 and…
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI Private/public nuisance---Distinction---Right protected by the tort of 'private nuisance' was the right to enjoy one's property---Essence of the right that was protected by the crime/tort of 'public n…
2022 PLD 92 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Sheikh AZFAR AMIN VS Chaudhary ASIF ALI Preamble & S. 151---Civil court, power of---Complete justice---Scope---Civil Procedure Code, 1908 was enacted to regulate the proceedings and mainly contained procedural laws, which were subservient t…
2022 PLD 108 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUNIR AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Finance, Islamabad Ss.3 & 6---Punjab Foodstuffs (Control) Act (XX of 1958), S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Price control---Object, purpose and sc…
2022 PLC 29 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
BILAL SHAH BAKHAT VS The PRESIDENT ASKARI BANK, ISLAMABAD S.2(xxxiii)---Worker---Workman---Scope---Question whether a person is a workman or not does not depend upon the designation but on the nature of duties. Head Notes
2022 PLC 29 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
BILAL SHAH BAKHAT VS The PRESIDENT ASKARI BANK, ISLAMABAD Ss.33 & 2(xxxiii)---Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S.O. 12---Individual grievance---"Workman"---Termination of employment---Scope---Ap…
2022 PLC 111 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
NISAR AHMED VS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY S.O. 1---Regularization of services---Permanent workman---Temporary workman---Scope---Employees continuously working for long time against permanent posts become eligible to be regularized. Head…
2022 PLC 111 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
NISAR AHMED VS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY S.33---Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S.O. 1---Individual grievance---Regularization of services---Permanent "workman"---Temporary "workman"---Deve…
2022 PLC 132 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH FAROOQI VS Mst. MEHWISH HUSSAIN S.33---Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S. 2(i) & S.O. 12---Individual grievances---Scope---"Workman"---Termination of employment---Scope---Peti…
2022 PLC 156 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
IMTIAZ AZIZ VS STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN S.33---Individual grievance---Extending of similar relief---Scope---Services of appellants were transferred to State Bank of Pakistan after dissolution of Pakistan Banking Council in terms of Banks Nati…
2022 PLC 165 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
GHULAM MUSTAFA VS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY S.33---Grievance petition---Scope---Petitioner, asserted that the department advertised several posts and the petitioner applied for the post of Stenographer BS-15; that he qualified the test…
2022 PLC 179 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
M. ABBAS RAZA VS IESCO. Ss.33 & 31---Redressal of individual grievances---Unfair labour practices on the part of employers---Scope---Petitioner complained of unfair labour practices on the part of respondent contending that he was placed un…
2022 PLD 1 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAZAL RAHMAN VS Mst. FAHMIDA Interpretation which would advance the purpose was to be preferred over an interpretation which defeated its object. Head Notes
2022 PLD 1 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAZAL RAHMAN VS Mst. FAHMIDA S. 14---Family Appeal---Power to change the mode of dissolution of marriage---Appellate Jurisdiction---Scope---Decree of dissolution of marriage on the basis of Khula and the refusal of Judge Family Court to gra…
2022 PLD 1 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAZAL RAHMAN VS Mst. FAHMIDA S. 14(2)---appeal---Jurisdiction---Scope---Restrictive construction of subsection (2) of S.14 of the Family Courts act, 1964 would be beneficial for the system besides affording an important right of first appea…
2022 PLD 1 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAZAL RAHMAN VS Mst. FAHMIDA S. 14(2)---Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act (VIII of 1939), S.2(viii)(a)---Right to appeal---Restrictive/narrow construction---Family Court, exclusive jurisdiction of---Scope---Question whether the parties sh…
2022 PLD 1 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAZAL RAHMAN VS Mst. FAHMIDA arts. 10a & 199---"Constitutional jurisdiction" and "appeal", distinction---Scope---Remedy under art. 199 of the Constitution was not as open-ended and as beneficial as the remedy of appeal before an appellate C…
2022 PLD 100 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
Raja MUHAMMAD ZUBAIR VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA S. 230---Caretaker Government, powers of---Scope---Section 230 of Elections Act, 2017 empowers a Caretaker Government only to execute the routine functions of Government making sure t…
2022 PLD 100 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
Raja MUHAMMAD ZUBAIR VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA S.230---Care-taker Government, functions/ powers of---Scope---Provincial Law Officers---Removal from service by Provincial Caretaker Government---Legality---Caretaker Government of th…
2022 PLD 105 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
AKHTAR ULLAH KHAN KHATTAK VS COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION, NOWSHERA S. 48---North-West Frontier Province Revenue Circular No. 54, Para. 66---Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded where not completed---Scope-…
2022 PLD 105 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
AKHTAR ULLAH KHAN KHATTAK VS COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION, NOWSHERA S. 48---Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded where not completed---Scope---Powers granted to the Land Acquisition Collector under S. 48 co…
2022 PLD 105 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
AKHTAR ULLAH KHAN KHATTAK VS COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION, NOWSHERA S. 48---Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded where not completed---Scope---Acquired land of the petitioners was in possession of the Acqui…
2022 PLD 105 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
AKHTAR ULLAH KHAN KHATTAK VS COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION, NOWSHERA Ss. 48, 4, 5-a, 6 & 9---Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded where not completed---Scope---Section 48 empowers the Government to unilatera…
2022 PLD 105 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
AKHTAR ULLAH KHAN KHATTAK VS COLLECTOR LAND ACQUISITION, NOWSHERA S. 48---Completion of acquisition not compulsory, but compensation to be awarded where not completed---Scope---Whenever the Land Acquisition Collector intends to exercise pow…
2022 PLD 118 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
REVEREND JIMMY MATHEW VS BISHOP PETERS art. 199(1)(b)(ii)---Quo warranto, writ of---Maintainability---Office of Bishop falls within the definition of public office falling within the ambit of art. 199(1)(b)(ii) of the Constitution. Head Not…
2022 PLD 118 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
REVEREND JIMMY MATHEW VS BISHOP PETERS Chaps. IX & XVI, Art.4---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Quo warranto, writ of---Bishop, appointment of---Principle---Petitioner assailed appointment of respondent as Bis…
2022 PLD 122 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ZIA ULLAH KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Interior Fourth Schedule, Part-I, Item No.56 & Part-II, Item No. 16---Investigation of criminal offences---Federal laws, violation of---Jurisdiction---Investigating Agency under con…
2022 PLD 122 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ZIA ULLAH KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Interior art. 99---Rules of Business, Schedule II, Entry No. 84---Constitutional petition--- Creation of new department--- Federal Government, jurisdiction of---Establishing Prime M…
2022 PLD 122 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ZIA ULLAH KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Interior art. 199---Constitutional petition---Grievance Redressal Mechanism---Good governance---Prime Minister's Performance Delivery Unit (PMDU) and Pakistan Citizen's Portal (PCP)…
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