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2022 PLD 306 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
VS art. 184(3)---Suo motu invocation of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under art. 184(3) of the Constitution---Scope---Order made by a two Member Bench of the Supreme Court ('the order dated 20-08-2021') on an application directly re…
2022 PLD 306 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
VS art. 184(3)---Supreme Court Rules, 1980, O.XI---Suo motu invocation of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under art. 184(3) of the Constitution---Scope---Benches of the Supreme Court are constituted by the Chief Justice and they canno…
2022 PLD 306 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
VS art. 175(2)---Jurisdiction of Courts---Scope---Judicial power---Judicial process for a certain jurisdiction of the Court comprises of three categories; firstly, a court must have jurisdiction; secondly, that jurisdiction must be properly…
2022 PLD 306 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
VS art. 184(3)---Suo motu powers of the Supreme Court---Scope---Suo motu jurisdiction is an expression of the power that vests in the judicial branch, and is a jurisdiction that stands allocated to the Supreme Court alone in terms of art. 1…
2022 PLD 306 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
VS art. 175(2)---Jurisdiction of Courts---Scope---article 175(2) of the Constitution provides that "No court shall have any jurisdiction save as is or may be conferred on it by the Constitution or by or under any law."---Cast though it is i…
2022 PLD 345 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD UNEEB AHMED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 3a & 25a(c)---B.Sc. (Engineering) program, admission to---Candidates with Diploma of associate Engineers ("DaE")---Reserved quota of 2% imposed by the Pakistan Engineering Council for admis…
2022 PLD 345 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD UNEEB AHMED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Regulations framed under an Act---Scope---Such Regulations have to remain within the four corners of the statutory mandate of the Act.
2022 PLD 353 SUPREME-COURT
SALAMAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD DIN art. 2(4)---Standard of proof---Different evidential standards of proof applicable in civil, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases stated.
2022 PLD 353 SUPREME-COURT
SALAMAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD DIN First Sched., art. 120---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 42---Suit for declaration---Limitation period, commencement of---adverse entry in the revenue record---Principles relating to when the right to sue acc…
2022 PLD 353 SUPREME-COURT
SALAMAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD DIN S. 115---Revisional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Issue of limitation---Such issue is one of law, or at-least mixed one of law and facts; therefore, the re-examination of findings of the court(s) below…
2022 PLD 353 SUPREME-COURT
SALAMAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD DIN S. 115---Revisional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Revisional court cannot upset a finding of fact of the court(s) below unless that finding is the result of misreading, non-reading, or perverse or absu…
2022 PLD 353 SUPREME-COURT
SALAMAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD DIN S. 18---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VI, R. 4---Commencement of limitation period---Benefit of postponing the commencement of the period of limitation provided to an injuriously affected person---Such bene…
2022 PLD 353 SUPREME-COURT
SALAMAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD DIN Inheritance---Law of limitation would be relevant in inheritance cases, where third party interest has been created in the property.
2022 PLD 366 SUPREME-COURT
Malik MUHAMMAD ARIF VS ZAFAR IQBAL S. 19---Eviction application incorrectly addressed to the Civil Court---Rectification of error by registering the same as an ejectment application---In the present case, the petitioner (landlord) filed an…
2022 PLD 370 SUPREME-COURT
AZMAT TOWELLERS (PVT.) LTD., MULTAN VS KHALID ANWAR O. I, R. 2 & O. IV, Rr. 2, 6, 15, 22, 26, 30, 31 & 32---"advocate-on-Record" ('aOR')---Primary duties and responsibilities of an aOR stated.
2022 PLD 7 SUPREME-COURT
HASNAIN RAZA VS LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE arts. 202 & 203---Judicial strictures recorded by the High Court/appellate Court against a judge of district/subordinate judiciary relating to his or her efficiency or conduct---Propriety---Public r…
2022 PLD 7 SUPREME-COURT
HASNAIN RAZA VS LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE arts. 202 & 203---Judicial strictures recorded against a judge of district/subordinate judiciary by the High Court/appellate Court---Improper---Principles for warning or proceeding against a judge o…
2022 PLD 7 SUPREME-COURT
HASNAIN RAZA VS LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE arts. 189 & 201---Vertical and horizontal precedents---Distinction and binding effect---Judicial effrontery---Effect---Judicial precedents may be classified into two categories: vertical and horizon…
2022 PLD 372 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB VS DEFENCE RAYA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB Constitutionality---In determining the constitutionality of a levy it is its substance that will be considered, regardless of the name or label attached to it.
2022 PLD 372 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB VS DEFENCE RAYA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB S. 7 (since omitted)---Punjab Sales Tax on Services Act (XLII of 2012), S. 3---Education cess on clubs---Double taxation---Whether the levy/cess imposed under section 7 of the P…
2022 PLD 372 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB VS DEFENCE RAYA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB Double taxation---Constitutionality---Double taxation is not beyond the scope of the relevant legislature, if in substance the levy in question is otherwise properly within its…
2022 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS State Ss. 5, 5B & 8---Export (Quality Control) Order, 1973, S. 4(a)---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 9, 10 & 14---Accused-exporter failing to ship the export consignment or refund the amount received in advance from the f…
2022 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS State O. XXIII, R. 2, second proviso---Petition for leave to appeal in criminal matters---Limitation---Condonation of delay---Scope---Where the legality of the condition set down on the release of a convict raised certain…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State Ss. 295-B, 295-C, 298-B & 298-C---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 561-A---Deletion of sections 295-B & 295-C, P.P.C. from the charge---Members of Ahmadi/Qadiani group styling their place of worship as a mosque;…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State S. 295-B---Defiling, etc., of Holy Qur'an, offence of---Pre-requisites---Mere reading of the Kalima or the Holy Quran by a non-Muslim/Ahmadi does not attract section 295-C, P.P.C.---Fundamental constituents of a crime…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State art. 14---Right to dignity---Scope---article 14 of the Constitution guarantees right to dignity to every person---Human dignity encapsulates the notion that every person has inherent equal worth; this simple but profou…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State Penal statute---Rule of strict construction---Scope---Penal statute should be strictly construed in favour of the accused---Degree of strictness depends upon the severity of the statute---When it is said that all penal…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State S. 295-C---Use of derogatory remarks, etc., in respect of the Holy Prophet (pbuh), offence of---Pre-requisites---What runs inside the mind of an Ahmadi, while reading the Kalima does not constitute an offence punishabl…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State arts. 14, 20, 22, 25 & Preamble---Minority rights---Freedom to profess and practice religion---Protections and fundamental rights available to minorities in the Constitution with respect to professing and practicing th…
2022 PLD 385 SUPREME-COURT
TAHIR NAQASH VS State arts. 20, 25, 260(3) & Preamble---Minority rights---Members of ahmadi/Qadiani group---Protections and fundamental rights available under the Constitution---article 260(3) of the Constitution though declares the ahmadis…
2022 PLD 395 SUPREME-COURT
ABID HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD YOUSAF Gift---Moveable and immoveable property---Islamic law does not make any distinction between movable or immovable property with regard to the concept of hiba, rather any property may be gifted by any person ha…
2022 PLD 395 SUPREME-COURT
ABID HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD YOUSAF Ss. 123 & 129---Islamic law---Oral gift---Transfer of Property Act, 1882, has no application to the hiba/gift envisioned and encapsulated under the Muslim Law and for this reason, sections 123 & 129 of the Tr…
2022 PLD 395 SUPREME-COURT
ABID HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD YOUSAF Gift---Gift by a father to his minor---Principles---Where the donee is a minor child of the donor, then delivery of possession itself is not compulsory---Possession of the father/guardian amounts to possessio…
2022 PLD 395 SUPREME-COURT
ABID HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD YOUSAF Gift---Gift by a father to his minor---Revocation of gift---Principles---Under Islamic Law gift of immovable property by a father in favour of his minor son cannot be revoked---When the donor and the donee ar…
2022 PLD 395 SUPREME-COURT
ABID HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD YOUSAF Gift---Essential pre-requisites---Donor should be compos mentis, meaning thereby a person who is of sound mind and has the mental capacity to understand the legal implications of his act of making gift and he…
2022 PLD 395 SUPREME-COURT
ABID HUSSAIN VS MUHAMMAD YOUSAF Gift---Essential pre-requisites---For a valid gift it is obligatory that the donor divests and dissociates himself downrightly from the dominion and ownership over the property of gift and puts into words his…
2022 PLD 409 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NAB, ISLAMABAD S. 498---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9---Companies Act (XIX of 2017), Ss. 264(3) & 500---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Pre-arrest bail, refusal of---Defraud…
2022 PLD 409 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NAB, ISLAMABAD art. 13(a)---National accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9---Companies act (XIX of 2017), Ss. 264(3) & 500---Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan act (XLII of 1997), Ss. 37…
2022 PLD 409 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NAB, ISLAMABAD Ss. 9(a)(ix) & 9(a)(x)---Companies Act (XIX of 2017), Ss. 84, 264(3), 482, 496(1)(d) & 500---Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Act (XLII of 1997), Ss. 37 & 41B---Penal Code (XLV o…
2022 PLD 409 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NAB, ISLAMABAD art. 185---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 498---National accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9---Companies act (XIX of 2017), Ss. 264(3) & 500---Supreme Court deciding petiti…
2022 PLD 409 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NAB, ISLAMABAD art. 13(a)---Protection against double punishment---Scope---Double jeopardy, principle of---Scope of article 13(a) of the Constitution stated.
2022 PLD 420 SUPREME-COURT
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE, KARACHI VS MUHAMMAD MUSTAFA GIGI Ss. 3, 9 & Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 70, 73(2), 73(3), 78(1), 81(e) & 177---Income Support Levy imposed through the Income Support Levy…
2022 PLD 420 SUPREME-COURT
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE, KARACHI VS MUHAMMAD MUSTAFA GIGI Methodologies and procedures prescribed in the Constitution---Each and every word of the Constitution, and the methodologies and procedures prescribed t…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan art. 2a & Preamble---State functionaries---Public office holders---Discretion, exercise of---Scope---Constitution does not envisage unstructured, uncon…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan Ss. 74 & 75(1)---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 2A, 9, 14, 25 & 140A---Constitutional petition under Article 184(3) of the Constitution---Local Govern…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan Statute made pursuant to a provision of the Constitution---Such statute cannot restrict or retard the constitutional provision under which it was made-…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan Conflict between the Constitution and a statute---Constitution being a basic document is always treated to be higher than other statutes and whenever a…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan Delegation of power---Scope---Legislature cannot delegate un-canalized and uncontrolled power, as the power to delegate must not be unconfined and vagr…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan Dynamic and progressive meaning---Scope---In interpreting constitutional provisions, the Courts approach and give dynamic and progressive meaning to th…
2022 PLD 439 SUPREME-COURT
M.Q.M. (PAKISTAN) VS PAKISTAN through Secretary Cabinet Division, Government of Pakistan arts. 2a, 9, 14, 17, 25, 140a & 184(3)---Constitutional petition under art. 184(3) of the Constitution---Maintainability---Issues raised by the petitio…
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