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2022 PLD 85 SUPREME-COURT
FAQIR ALI VS SAKINA BIBI Fraudulent gift mutation---Limitation for challenging a fraudulent gift mutation---Where fraud and collusion were alleged and established, the question of limitation did not and could not help the beneficiary of suc…
2022 PLD 85 SUPREME-COURT
FAQIR ALI VS SAKINA BIBI Co-sharer in property---Possession of one or more of the legal heirs would be deemed to be that of their deceased predecessor in interest and limitation would not run against a co-sharer.
2022 PLD 92 SUPREME-COURT
KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY VS AIMAL KHAN arts. 199 & 185(3)---Educational institution---Internal governance and disciplinary policies---Courts should sparingly interfere in university matters and academic freedom and institutional autonomy--…
2022 PLD 92 SUPREME-COURT
KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY VS AIMAL KHAN Relief granted on basis of compassion or hardship---Scope---Judges are to decide disputes before them in accordance with the Constitution and the law, not on the basis of their whims, likes and dislik…
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN O.VI, R.1---Pleadings---Plea of Pardanashin lady---Question as to whether a lady is Pardanashin or not is always a question of fact which should be specifically pleaded and proved by some cogent evidence…
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN Meaning---Phrase "Pardanashin lady" depicts a woman who heeded stringent and unyielding canons and ethics of seclusion and privacy and according to the customs may object to show up in a public office or…
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN Evolution of law with changing times---Law must not become stagnant or archaic while society moves forward; it must be accessible, intelligible and must change with the times responding to the realism of…
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN Preamble---Rules framed in the Civil Procedure Code are for the advancement of justice and should not as far as possible, be allowed to operate so as to defeat the ends of justice.
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN O.VI, R.1---Pleadings---Scope---No party can lead evidence beyond the pleadings.
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN Ss. 75 & 132 & O.XXVI, R.1---Exemption of certain women from personal appearance---Scope---Pardanashin lady---Customs and manners advocated under S.132, C.P.C., characterize the customs and manners predom…
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN Transaction concerning property enterted into by a Pardanashin or illetrate lady---Principles and burden of proof.
2022 PLD 99 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAEEM KHAN VS MUQADAS KHAN art. 129(g)---Withholding/non-production of witnesses by the plaintiff---Effect---Where a party keeps hold of the witnesses, the presumption would be that if such witnesses were produced, their testimony…
2022 PLD 112 SUPREME-COURT
NADEEM SAMSON VS State S. 497---First bail petition before the High Court dismissed as withdrawn with direction to the Trial Court for expeditious conclusion of the trial---Second bail petition, filing of---Fresh grounds---Scope---Non-compl…
2022 PLD 112 SUPREME-COURT
NADEEM SAMSON VS State S. 497---Withdrawal of first bail petition without any arguments---Second bail petition, filing of---Fresh grounds---Scope---Withdrawal of an earlier bail petition before addressing any argument on the merits of the c…
2022 PLD 112 SUPREME-COURT
NADEEM SAMSON VS State S. 497(1), third and fourth provisos---Bail---Delay in conclusion of the trial---Scope of statutory bail under third proviso to S.497(1), Cr.P.C explained.
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 184(3), 188, 209(5)(b) & 209(8)---Income Tax Ordinance (XLIX of 2001), S. 116(1)(b)---Review petition before the Supreme Court challenging the directions given to the tax authorities by t…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Scope---Even in absence of any express provision in the statute, the principle of audi alteram partem is to be read into the relevant provision and applies in proceedings where adverse action i…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O. XLVII, R. 1---Review---Scope---In review proceedings the Court can examine only those events which existed at the time when the order was passed.
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 176 & 192(1)---Judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court---Said Judges are public servants and also in the Service of Pakistan; they occupy an office 'in connection with the affairs…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 176, 192(1) & 209(5)(b)---Judges of Superior Courts, accountability of---Financial affairs of the spouse and other family members of a Judge---Necessary corollary which flows from the nat…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 8---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R.1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review petition, hearing of---Constitution of Bench---Scope---Judicial power to be exercise…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 209(8)---Code of Conduct for Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts ('the Code of Conduct')---Spouses and children of Judges---No law or clause in the Code of Conduct prescribed for J…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 187(1) & Pt. II, Chap. 1---"Power of the Supreme Court to issue such directions, orders or decrees as may be necessary for doing complete justice in any case or matter pending before it"--…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 184(3) & 187(1)---Supreme Court issuing directions in its jurisdiction under arts.184(3) & 187(1) of the Constitution---Scope---When the Supreme Court acts under the said two articles of…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 176, 192(1) & 209(5)(b)---National accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9(a)(v)---Prevention of Corruption act (II of 1947), S. 5(1)(e)---Judges of Superior Courts, accountability…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Scope---Body (or an authorised person) only becomes functus officio once it has passed an order or made a decision which is final so that no power is left with the said body to take any further…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Fair hearing, right of---Essential constituents of a fair hearing---To ensure the principle of fairness embedded in the right of hearing, the person sought to be affected must at least be made…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Preamble---Self-executory provisions of the Constitution---Meaning---When the Constitution intends any of its provisions to be immediately operational so that the right which it grants may be e…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 8---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R.1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Guiding principles of review jurisdiction stated…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Scope---Where an authority has no jurisdiction in the matter under the law, jurisdiction cannot be conferred on that authority by an order of the Court.
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 1---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R. 1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Scope---Whenever Judges of the Supreme Court fi…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 184(3) & 187(1)---Power of Supreme Court to issue any directions necessary to do complete justice---Scope---Existence and exercise of the (Supreme) Court's power under the Constitution to…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 209(5)---Supreme Judicial Council ('the Council'), powers of---Expression 'information from any source' used in art. 209(5) of the Constitution---Scope---Clause (5) of art. 209 of the Cons…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 1---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R.1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Expression 'error apparent on the face of the re…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN When the basic order is without lawful authority, then the entire superstructure built on it falls on to the ground automatically.
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 25, 184(3), 187(1), 188, 209(5)(b) & 211---Income Tax Ordinance (XLIX of 2001), Ss.11(5), 111, 116(1)(b), 121, 122, 198, 199, 209 & 216---Review petitions before the Supreme Court challen…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 1---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R.1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Expression 'error apparent on the face of the re…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XI---Principles of law settled in unanimous and split judgments of the Supreme Court---Numerical strength of Bench required for overruling such principles---Where a case is decided by a 4-3 m…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 209(5)(b) & 210---Supreme Judicial Council ('the Council'), jurisdiction of---Jurisdiction of the Council under art. 209(5) of the Constitution is limited to inquiring into matters concer…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 189---Multi-member Bench of the Supreme Court---Majority/ minority judgments---Operative decision---Scope---In any case heard by a multi-member Bench (i.e., a Bench comprising of more than…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 209(5) & 209(6) & Preamble---'Independence of judiciary' and 'rule of law' importance of---Rule of law---Scope---Edifice of the judicial independence rests on the assumption that every Ju…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 4(1)---Right to be dealt with in accordance with law---Scope---No one, including a Judge of the highest court in the land, is above the law---at the same time, no one, including a Judge of…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art.4---Right to be dealt with in accordance with law---Scope---Constitutional guarantee of the right to be dealt with in accordance with law, under art. 4 of the Constitution, is available not…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 1---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R.1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Expression 'error apparent on the face of the re…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 209(5)---Supreme Judicial Council ('the Council')---Information from 'any' source against a Judge---Scope---Supreme Court can be a source of such information under art. 209(5) of the Const…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 10a---Right to fair trial and due process---Scope---after recognition of the right to fair trial and due process as a fundamental right by insertion of art. 10a in the Constitution, violat…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Courts cannot and should not create any right, liability or obligation that is not founded in law.
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN art. 18---Evidence act (I of 1872), S. 5 (since repealed)---Illegally collected evidence---Survey of case-law and rules set therein regulating admissibility of illegally collected evidence in j…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Ordinary and natural meaning---Scope---Words are generally to be given their ordinary and natural meaning except when such construction gives rise to absurdity or renders certain words meaningl…
2022 PLD 119 SUPREME-COURT
Justice QAZI FAEZ ISA VS PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O.XXVI, R. 1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Split decision of Supreme Court in its review jurisdiction---Majority and minority judgments---Scope---In case of a split decision (where the…
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