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2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad Courts decide disputes on the strength of established facts and not on surmises or mere conjectures.
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad arts.5, 69, 95 & 184(3)---Court not to inquire into proceedings of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament)---Scope---Reso…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad art. 95---Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National assembly, 2007, R. 37---Resolution for a…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad arts. 5, 58(1), 95 & 184(3)---Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National assembly, 2007, Rr. 3…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad art. 184(3)& Pt. II, Chap. 1 ---Political questions---Supreme Court, jurisdiction of---Scope---Court exercises…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad arts. 5, 58(1), 69, 95 & 184(3)---Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National assembly, 2007, R…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad R. 17(1)---Speaker to decide points of order---Scope---In terms of Rule 17(1) of the Rules of Procedure and Co…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad arts. 5, 95 & 184(3)---Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National assembly, 2007, R. 37---Reso…
2022 PLD 574 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY PARLIAMENTARIANS (PPPP) VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice Islamabad arts. 5, 6, 53(3), 58(1), 95 & 184(3) & Preamble---Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the National…
2022 PLD 17 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SAEED KHAN VS Malik MUHAMMAD ASHRAF arts. 185 & 199---Pro forma respondent in a Constitutional petition dismissed by the High Court---Whether such respondent could competently file a petition for leave to appeal before the Supreme…
2022 PLD 675 SUPREME-COURT
QAUSAIN FAISAL VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary,Ministry of Interior O.III, R. 10(a), O. V, R.1(6) & O.VII, R. 7---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 184(3)---Constitutional petition under Article 184(3) filed before the Supreme Cour…
2022 CLD 413 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, NAB HEADQUARTER, ISLAMABAD Ss. 84, 264(3), 482, 496(1)(d) & 500---Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Act (XLII of 1997), Ss. 37 & 41B---National Accountability Ord…
2022 CLD 413 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, NAB HEADQUARTER, ISLAMABAD Ss. 264(3) & 500---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898…
2022 CLD 413 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, NAB HEADQUARTER, ISLAMABAD art. 13(a)---Protection against double punishment---Scope---Double jeopardy, principle of---Scope of art. 13(a) of the Constitution stated.
2022 CLD 413 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, NAB HEADQUARTER, ISLAMABAD Ss. 264(3) & 500---Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Act (XLII of 1997), Ss. 37 & 41B---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 13(a)---National…
2022 CLD 413 SUPREME-COURT
SAIF UR REHMAN KHAN VS CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, NAB HEADQUARTER, ISLAMABAD Ss. 264(3) & 500---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 498---Constitution of Pakistan,…
2022 CLD 615 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD MULTAZAM RAZA VS MUHAMMAD AYUB KHAN Ss. 24 & 40---Infringement of registered trademark---Passing off---Scope---Use of trade mark can also be attributed to the person who has got to the stage where he can be seen objectively to have…
2022 CLD 615 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD MULTAZAM RAZA VS MUHAMMAD AYUB KHAN Ss. 17(4), 18 & 39---Trade Marks Ordinance (XIX of 2001), Ss. 24(5) & 40---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. VII, R. 10---Co-ownership of trademark---Infringement of registered trademark---Pas…
2022 CLD 615 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD MULTAZAM RAZA VS MUHAMMAD AYUB KHAN Ss. 17(4) & 18---Trade Marks Ordinance (XIX of 2001), S. 40---Infringement of registered trademark---Passing off---Intellectual Property Tribunal ('the Tribunal'), jurisdiction of---Passing off a…
2022 CLD 656 SUPREME-COURT
Mrs. NAILA NAEEM YOUNUS VS INDUS SERVICES LIMITED Preamble---Companies Ordinance (XLVII of 1984) [since substituted by the Companies Act, 2017], Preamble---Companies are governed by their own self-contained law, which special law should not…
2022 CLD 656 SUPREME-COURT
Mrs. NAILA NAEEM YOUNUS VS INDUS SERVICES LIMITED When more than one interpretation is fairly and reasonably possible, then that which leads to manifest absurdity or injustice must be avoided.
2022 CLD 656 SUPREME-COURT
Mrs. NAILA NAEEM YOUNUS VS INDUS SERVICES LIMITED S. 126---Companies Ordinance (XLVII of 1984) [since substituted by the Companies Act, 2017], Ss. 152 & 153---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), First Sched. & Art. 181---Fraudulent transfer of sha…
2022 CLD 970 SUPREME-COURT
SHEZAN SERVICES (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SHEZAN BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS (PRIVATE) LIMITED Ss. 6, 8(a) & 10(1)---Revised Trade Marks Rules, 1963 [since repealed], R.11 & Fourth Sched., Class 29---Trademark "Shezan"---No distinctiveness in the t…
2022 CLD 970 SUPREME-COURT
SHEZAN SERVICES (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SHEZAN BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS (PRIVATE) LIMITED S. 5(1)---Revised Trade Marks Rules, 1963 [since repealed], R. 11 & Fourth Sched.---Trademark, registration of---Scope---Merely because a proprietor of a…
2022 CLD 1296 SUPREME-COURT
PAK LEATHER CRAFTS LIMITED VS AL-BARAKA BANK PAKISTAN LIMITED Deeming provision in a statute---While interpreting deeming provisions in a statute the Court is bound to ascertain the limits, purpose and object for which the legislature had c…
2022 CLD 1296 SUPREME-COURT
PAK LEATHER CRAFTS LIMITED VS AL-BARAKA BANK PAKISTAN LIMITED S. 22---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), S. 12(5)---Appeal against judgment of Banking Court---Limitation period, commencement of---Time consumed by appellant in payment of fee/cost…
2022 CLD 1415 SUPREME-COURT
FIRST DAWOOD INVESTMENT BANK LTD., KARACHI VS BANK OF PUNJAB through President, Lahore S. 305(e)---Winding up of company---Default in payment of debt---Word "may" used in S. 305 of the Companies Ordinance, 1984 ('the Ordinance') for the com…
2022 CLD 1415 SUPREME-COURT
FIRST DAWOOD INVESTMENT BANK LTD., KARACHI VS BANK OF PUNJAB through President, Lahore Ss. 305(e), 306(1)(a) & 309---Winding up of company---Default in payment of debt---Principles pertaining to winding up of a company that is unable to pay…
2022 CLD 1415 SUPREME-COURT
FIRST DAWOOD INVESTMENT BANK LTD., KARACHI VS BANK OF PUNJAB through President, Lahore Ss. 305(e) & 306(1)(a)---Winding up of company---Default in payment of debt---Presumption after serving of notice---Legislature has, vested the creditor…
2022 CLD 1415 SUPREME-COURT
FIRST DAWOOD INVESTMENT BANK LTD., KARACHI VS BANK OF PUNJAB through President, Lahore S. 306(1)(a)---Winding up of company---Default in payment of debt---Phrase 'neglect to pay' used in section 306(1)(a) of the Companies Ordinance, 1984 ('…
2022 CLD 1415 SUPREME-COURT
FIRST DAWOOD INVESTMENT BANK LTD., KARACHI VS BANK OF PUNJAB through President, Lahore Ss. 305(e), 306(1)(a) & 309---Petition for winding up of company due to default in payment of debt---Maintainability---Pending civil suit does not bar a…
2022 CLD 1486 SUPREME-COURT
EFU GENERAL INSURANCE LIMITED VS ZHONGXING TELECOM PAKISTAN (PRIVATE) LIMITED (ZTE) S. 126---Demand guarantee/performance bonds---Enforcement of such instruments---Principles relating to enforcement of rights and liabilities of surety/Bank,…
2022 CLD 1557 SUPREME-COURT
KHALID SIRAJ TEXTILE MILLS LIMITED, LAHORE VS ADDITIONAL REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES, SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 301 & 304---Compulsory winding up of a company by Court---Petition for winding up a company filed by the Sec…
2022 CLD 1557 SUPREME-COURT
KHALID SIRAJ TEXTILE MILLS LIMITED, LAHORE VS ADDITIONAL REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES, SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 301(m) & 304---Compulsory winding up of a company by Court which has shut down its business for several year…
2022 PLD 678 SUPREME-COURT
Chaudhry PARVEZ ELAHI VS DEPUTY SPEAKER, PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB, LAHORE If a Judge has unconsciously followed an incorrect view of the law, he has by conscious application of mind the freedom to adopt the correct view of the law subs…
2022 PLD 678 SUPREME-COURT
Chaudhry PARVEZ ELAHI VS DEPUTY SPEAKER, PROVINCIAL ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB, LAHORE arts. 63a(1)(b), 130(4) & 184(3)---Runoff election for the post of Provincial Chief Minister---Deputy Speaker of Provincial assembly by relying on short judgment…
2022 PLD 686 SUPREME-COURT
HASEEN ULLAH VS Mst. NAHEED BEGUM S. 5, Sched.---Maintenance of wife---Obligation of husband---Under Islamic law a wife's right to be maintained by her husband is absolute so long as she remains faithful to him and discharges, or is willing…
2022 PLD 686 SUPREME-COURT
HASEEN ULLAH VS Mst. NAHEED BEGUM S. 5, Sched.---Muslim Family Laws Ordinance (VIII of 1961), Ss.9 & 10---Dower (mehr)---Entries in columns Nos.13 and 16 of the Nikahnama---Entries in said columns are to be interpreted on the basis of the i…
2022 PLD 686 SUPREME-COURT
HASEEN ULLAH VS Mst. NAHEED BEGUM S. 5, Sched.---Dower, payment of---Obligation of husband---In Islam, the payment of dower to bride at marriage is an obligation that is imposed by Allah Almighty, and is thus an intrinsic and integral part…
2022 PLD 694 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE VS State S. 497(5) ---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Bail granted by the High Court---Grounds upon which the Supreme Court may set-aside such bail granting order---Although the Supreme Court ordinarily refrains fro…
2022 PLD 694 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE VS State S. 497(2)---Bail---Cross-version FIRs---Further inquiry---Scope and meaning of "cross-version" in a bail matter.
2022 PLD 694 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD RAFIQUE VS State Ss. 497(5) & 497(2)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 324, 337-F(v), 337-F(i), 337-A(i), 337-A(ii), 341, 148 & 149---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Murderous assault---Bail, cancellation of---Cross-vers…
2022 PLD 699 SUPREME-COURT
NAUSHER VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Collector, Khanewal S. 9---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 4 & 199---Matters within jurisdiction of Special/Administrative Tribunals---Limited jurisdiction of Civil Courts---Scope---When a spec…
2022 PLD 699 SUPREME-COURT
NAUSHER VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Collector, Khanewal S. 9---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Matters decided by Special/Administrative Tribunals---Limited jurisdiction of Civil Courts---Grounds upon which the legality of a…
2022 PLD 699 SUPREME-COURT
NAUSHER VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Collector, Khanewal S. 5---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 9---Matters decided by Special/Administrative Tribunals---Limited jurisdiction of Civil Courts---Scope---In cases where the Reven…
2022 PLD 699 SUPREME-COURT
NAUSHER VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Collector, Khanewal S. 41---Transfer by ostensible owner---Protection under S.41 of Transfer of Property Act, 1882---Pre-requisites---Such protection can only be claimed when the following cond…
2022 PLD 699 SUPREME-COURT
NAUSHER VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Collector, Khanewal S. 9, O. VIII, R.1, O. X, R. 1 & O. XV, Rr. 3, 4---Civil suit challenging order passed by Special/Administrative Tribunals---Procedural and evidentiary requirements that a C…
2022 PLD 712 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD AHSAN ABID VS MAKHDOOM KHUSRU BAKHTIAR O.III, R.10, O.V, R. 1(6), O.VII, R. 7 & O.XVII, Rr. 5 & 12---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 191---Registrar Supreme Court, powers of---Scope---Supreme Court Rules, 1980 ('the Rules') empower…
2022 PLD 716 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ANWAR VS ESSA Scope---Law of limitation is not a mere technicality---Once the limitation expires, a right accrues in favour of the other side by operation of law which cannot lightly be taken away.
2022 PLD 716 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ANWAR VS ESSA Ss. 3 & 5---Suit/application/appeal/review/revision barred by limitation---Condonation of delay---Discretion of Court---Parameters of discretion available with Court in condoning delay stated.
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