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2022 PLC(CS) 859 SUPREME-COURT
CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY through Chairman, Islamabad VS SHABIR HUSSAIN Reglns. 4.04, 4.17 & 4.18---Employees of Capital Development Authority (CDA)---Promotion order, withdrawal of---Legality---Vested right to promotion---Scope---Locus…
2022 PLC(CS) 877 SUPREME-COURT
MUNIR HUSSAIN VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---High Court lacked jurisdiction or power to create rights which were not provided by the Constitution or a validly enacted law.
2022 PLC(CS) 877 SUPREME-COURT
MUNIR HUSSAIN VS PROVINCE OF SINDH Vacant posts, filling of---After the process of written test and interview a merit list was prepared by the Provincial Public Service Commission ('the Commission) for appointment against the advertised pos…
2022 PLC(CS) 877 SUPREME-COURT
MUNIR HUSSAIN VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art. 185(3)---Leave refusing order of the Supreme Court---Such order did not constitute precedent.
2022 PLC(CS) 877 SUPREME-COURT
MUNIR HUSSAIN VS PROVINCE OF SINDH Vacant posts, filling of---Advertised posts falling vacant either due to selected candidates (appearing on merit list) not joining service or quitting their posts after joining---Principles for filling suc…
2022 PLC(CS) 899 SUPREME-COURT
SAQIB ALI KHOKHAR, DIRECTOR (REGIONAL)/ ADDITIONAL DIRECTOR VS INAYATULLAH LOHAR Ss.15(2) & 15(3)---Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority Employees (Appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 2012, R. 13---Sindh Civil…
2022 PLC(CS) 914 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL SATTAR JATOI VS CHIEF MINISTER SINDH through Principal Secretary, Chief Minister Secretariat, Karachi Person specific post, creation of---Illegal.
2022 PLC(CS) 914 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL SATTAR JATOI VS CHIEF MINISTER SINDH through Principal Secretary, Chief Minister Secretariat, Karachi Promotion---Merit---Competent authority is bound to consider all eligible candidates for promotion on merit---In the matter of civil…
2022 PLC(CS) 914 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL SATTAR JATOI VS CHIEF MINISTER SINDH through Principal Secretary, Chief Minister Secretariat, Karachi S. 4, proviso (b)---appeal to Tribunal---Jurisdiction of Tribunal---Scope---Proviso (b) of S. 4 of the Sindh Service Tribunals act,…
2022 PLC(CS) 947 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore VS Prof. Dr. JAVED IQBAL art. 199---Civil service---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---High Court in exercise of its constitutional jurisdiction has no power to extend…
2022 PLC(CS) 947 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore VS Prof. Dr. JAVED IQBAL appointment---Court cannot step into the shoes of the appointing authority.
2022 PLC(CS) 947 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore VS Prof. Dr. JAVED IQBAL Contractual employees---Regularization in service---Scope---Long and satisfactory contractual service does not confer any right on an employee to claim regularizati…
2022 PLC(CS) 947 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore VS Prof. Dr. JAVED IQBAL Contractual employees---Regularization in service---Scope---Regularization takes effect prospectively, from the date when a regularization order is passed---In the…
2022 PLC(CS) 961 SUPREME-COURT
The POSTMASTER GENERAL SINDH PROVINCE, KARACHI VS SYED FARHAN Post Office Manual, Vol. IV, Appendix No. 27---Junior Accountant, General Post Office (GPO)---Negligence and inefficiency in supervising subordinate official found guilty of comm…
2022 PLC(CS) 961 SUPREME-COURT
The POSTMASTER GENERAL SINDH PROVINCE, KARACHI VS SYED FARHAN Punishment---award and quantum of punishment---Scope---award of appropriate punishment under the law is primarily the function of the concerned administrative authority and the r…
2022 PLC(CS) 961 SUPREME-COURT
The POSTMASTER GENERAL SINDH PROVINCE, KARACHI VS SYED FARHAN S. 5(1)---Service Tribunal, powers of---Scope---'Negligence' and 'gross negligence'---Distinction---Expression "negligence" connotes a dearth of attentiveness and alertness or di…
2022 PLC(CS) 990 SUPREME-COURT
UZMA MANZOOR VS VICE-CHANCELLOR KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY, KARAK Scope and connotation---Doctrine of legitimate expectation connoted that a person may have a reasonable expectation of being treated in a certain way by administrative a…
2022 PLC(CS) 990 SUPREME-COURT
UZMA MANZOOR VS VICE-CHANCELLOR KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY, KARAK Recruitment process---Selection criteria---Scope---Mere submitting of an application for joining recruitment process in response to an advertisement did not create any v…
2022 PLC(CS) 1008 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY FINANCE, FINANCE DIVISION PAK. SECRETARIAT, ISLAMABAD VS MUHAMMAD FAROOQ KHAN Rr. 7 & 8---Time scale promotion from BPS-17 to BPS-18 without change in designation of post---Premature increment, eligibility for---Employee granted t…
2022 PLC(CS) 1128 SUPREME-COURT
MANZAR ZAHOOR VS LYARI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY R. 12a---Sindh Civil Servants (appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1974, R. 12-a---Sindh Civil Services Rules [C.S.R.] Vol I, R. 171---General Financial Rules of the Federal Government (G…
2022 PLC(CS) 1201 SUPREME-COURT
SOHAIL AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary of Interior Ministry, Islamabad Principles of natural justice require that the delinquent should be afforded a fair-minded opportunity to converge, give explanation and contest the al…
2022 PLC(CS) 1201 SUPREME-COURT
SOHAIL AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary of Interior Ministry, Islamabad R. 8---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 13---Member of Frontier Constabulary---Punishment imposed without opportunity of personal hearing---Two punishmen…
2022 PLC(CS) 1201 SUPREME-COURT
SOHAIL AHMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Secretary of Interior Ministry, Islamabad art. 187---Power of the Supreme Court to issue directions, orders or decrees as may be necessary for doing complete justice --- Phrase 'complete justic…
2022 PLC(CS) 1225 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Forest, Peshawar VS SHER AMAN art. 199---Civil service---Project posts---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Once the project in question had come to an end and the proj…
2022 PLC(CS) 1225 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Forest, Peshawar VS SHER AMAN Contractual employee adjusted against a permanent post in a department---Legality---Permanent posts in a department were required to be filled in a transparent…
2022 PLC(CS) 1225 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Forest, Peshawar VS SHER AMAN Contract employees---Regularization in service---Contractual employees had no vested right of regularization---Regularization cannot take place without statuto…
2022 PLC(CS) 1225 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Forest, Peshawar VS SHER AMAN art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Discretionary jurisdiction under art. 199 of the Constitution could not be exercised in a va…
2022 PLC(CS) 1225 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Forest, Peshawar VS SHER AMAN art. 199---Civil service---Contractual employment---Project posts---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---High Court could not step into the…
2022 PLC(CS) 1262 SUPREME-COURT
SUI SOUTHERN GAS COMPANY LIMITED VS SAEED AHMED KHOSO art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Master-servant---Employee of company registered under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 or the Companies act, 2017 in which…
2022 PLC(CS) 1262 SUPREME-COURT
SUI SOUTHERN GAS COMPANY LIMITED VS SAEED AHMED KHOSO Non-statutory rules of service---Where employment rules are non-statutory in nature, the relationship of employer and employee is governed by the principle of master and servant.
2022 PLC(CS) 1284 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS BACHA ALAM KHAN S. 7---Public Service Commission---Purpose---Recommendations for appointment forwarded by the Public Service Commission---Scope---Purpose of establishing Public Service Commission was to e…
2022 PLC(CS) 1284 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS BACHA ALAM KHAN Regln. 19(f)(ii)--- advertised post--- Prescribed qualification---Candidate possessing higher qualification than the one prescribed for the post---In view of clear provision incorporated i…
2022 PLC(CS) 1319 SUPREME-COURT
KASHIF AFTAB AHMED ABBASI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad Seniority and promotion---No one has a vested right to a particular promotion or particular seniority but it is always governed and regu…
2022 PLC(CS) 1319 SUPREME-COURT
KASHIF AFTAB AHMED ABBASI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad Rr. 5 & 11---Occupational Groups and Services (Probation, Training and Seniority) Rules, 1990, R. 7---Seniority, determination of---Civi…
2022 PLC(CS) 1319 SUPREME-COURT
KASHIF AFTAB AHMED ABBASI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad antedated seniority---No antedated seniority can be claimed as a vested right.
2022 PLC(CS) 1341 SUPREME-COURT
PRESIDENT, ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED, HEAD OFFICE, ISLAMABAD VS KISHWAR KHAN Substantial justice---Court, duty of---Function of the court is to do substantial justice and not to knockout or non-suit the party on technicalities.
2022 PLC(CS) 1341 SUPREME-COURT
PRESIDENT, ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED, HEAD OFFICE, ISLAMABAD VS KISHWAR KHAN Relationship of master and servant and remedies available to a servant in case of dismissal from employment, explained.
2022 PLC(CS) 1341 SUPREME-COURT
PRESIDENT, ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED, HEAD OFFICE, ISLAMABAD VS KISHWAR KHAN Ss. 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VII, Rr. 10 & 11---Employees in a master-servant relationship---Civil suit filed by such employees against the…
2022 PLC(CS) 1341 SUPREME-COURT
PRESIDENT, ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED, HEAD OFFICE, ISLAMABAD VS KISHWAR KHAN O. VII, R. 11---Rejection of plaint---Principles---Order VII, Rule 11, C.P.C. enlightens and expounds rejection of plaint if it appears from the averments artic…
2022 PLC(CS) 1341 SUPREME-COURT
PRESIDENT, ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED, HEAD OFFICE, ISLAMABAD VS KISHWAR KHAN O. VII, R. 11---Return of plaint---Principles---Order VII, Rule 10, C.P.C. provides that the plaint shall at any stage of the suit be returned to be presented t…
2022 PLC(CS) 1374 SUPREME-COURT
FIDA MUHAMMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Education, Peshawar Upgradation of post---Scope---Upgradation could not be claimed as a matter of right but was in fact based on a policy decision of the competent authorit…
2022 PLC(CS) 1382 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ANWAR VS CHAIRMAN WAPDA art.486---Emoluments and average Emoluments---Pensionary benefits, calculation of---Scope---Consistent with Civil Service Regulations (CSR), art. 486, emoluments are to be calculated upon what the officer wa…
2022 PLC(CS) 1382 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ANWAR VS CHAIRMAN WAPDA Conditional or qualified grant---Scope----No vested right can be claimed on the basis of a conditional or qualified grant unless its conditions are fulfilled.
2022 PLC(CS) 1390 SUPREME-COURT
Homoeo Dr. ASMA NOREEN SYED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB S. 8(5) [as amended by section 3 of the Punjab Civil Servants (Amendment) Act, 2005]---Proforma promotion after retirement---Scope---Judgment of Tribunal based on an incorrectly publis…
2022 PLC(CS) 1390 SUPREME-COURT
Homoeo Dr. ASMA NOREEN SYED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB Law should be worn by the Judge on his sleeves---Justice should be imparted according to the law, notwithstanding whether the parties in a lis before the Court are misdirected and misp…
2022 PLC(CS) 1390 SUPREME-COURT
Homoeo Dr. ASMA NOREEN SYED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB Maxim "actus curiae neminem gravabit"---Meaning and scope---Patent and obvious error or oversight on the part of Court in any order or decision may be reviewed sanguine to the renowned…
2022 PLC(CS) 1407 SUPREME-COURT
POSTMASTER GENERAL, KARACHI VS ARSHAD ALI S.3---Post Office Manual, Vol. VI, Chapt. 8, R. 403---Head Postmaster (Incharge)---Fraud in Savings Bank Accounts---Misconduct, inefficiency, connivance, abetment of fraud---Dismissal from service--…
2022 PLC(CS) 1407 SUPREME-COURT
POSTMASTER GENERAL, KARACHI VS ARSHAD ALI Concurrent disciplinary and criminal proceedings---Scope and purpose--- Purpose of initiating disciplinary proceedings is to ascertain whether the charges of misconduct against the delinquent are pr…
2022 PLC(CS) 1407 SUPREME-COURT
POSTMASTER GENERAL, KARACHI VS ARSHAD ALI S. 5---Negligence or inefficiency---Service Tribunal---Evaluation of evidence---Scope---Sometimes little negligence or inefficiency may cause serious disaster and stern end results, therefore, at th…
2022 PLC(CS) 1407 SUPREME-COURT
POSTMASTER GENERAL, KARACHI VS ARSHAD ALI Concurrent disciplinary and criminal proceedings---Acquittal in criminal proceedings--- Effect--- Civil servant cannot escape departmental proceedings or consequences thereof on account of his acqui…
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