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2023 PLC(CS) 371 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ARSHAD ALI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary I.T. and Telecom, Islamabad S.24-a---Constitution of Pakistan, art.199---Constitutional petition---Speaking order---applicability---Voluntary Separation Scheme---Eligibility, determinat…
2023 PLC(CS) 415 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHOAIB ASGHAR GUJJAR VS COMMISSIONER SARGODHA DIVISION R.17-a---Deceased quota---appointment in dying cadre---Scope---Petitioner assailed the refusal of authorities to appoint him as Computer Operator (BS-12) under R.17-a of the Punjab Civi…
2023 PLC(CS) 415 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHOAIB ASGHAR GUJJAR VS COMMISSIONER SARGODHA DIVISION art.199---Constitutional petition---Policy matter---Scope---Courts could not embark upon an inquiry as to whether a particular policy is wise and acceptable or whether better policy cou…
2023 PLC(CS) 431 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IJAZ AKHTAR VS SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Promotion---Promotion cannot be claimed as matter of right.
2023 PLC(CS) 431 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IJAZ AKHTAR VS SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Where the law requires an act to be done in a particular manner, it ought to be done in that manner only, and such a dictate of law cannot be termed as a technicality.
2023 PLC(CS) 431 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IJAZ AKHTAR VS SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB Proforma promotion---Meaning and scope of proforma promotion stated.
2023 CLC 1 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HAROON FAROOQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary arts.153, 155 & 199---Environmental degradation and climate justice---Preservation of water resources---Mitigation and adaptation---Council of Common Interests---Complaints with…
2023 CLC 1 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HAROON FAROOQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary arts.9 & 38---Right to life---Environmental degradation and climate justice---Scope---Provision of art.9 of the Constitution includes life which is free from hazards caused by en…
2023 CLC 1 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HAROON FAROOQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary Constitution is a social compact between the State and the people, and it contains rights which the State is under an obligation to enforce.
2023 CLC 1 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HAROON FAROOQ VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary art.3---Climate justice---Scope---Environmental degradation---Elimination of exploitation---Under art.3 of the Constitution the State has to ensure elimination of all forms of ex…
2023 PLC(CS) 444 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD YUNAS VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB S.12---Retirement from service---amendment in law---Retrospective effect---Scope---Petitioner assailed order passed by respondent whereby his retirement order was recalled with the direction to rejoi…
2023 PLC(CS) 484 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WAQAS RASOOL VS SECRETARY SCHOOL EDUCATION appointment---Suitability of candidate---Policy matter---In assessment of suitability of a particular nature of job and its scope in the context of particular employer the Courts cannot prescribe t…
2023 PLC(CS) 484 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WAQAS RASOOL VS SECRETARY SCHOOL EDUCATION Upgrading of post---Policy matter---Not the domain of the Courts to embark upon an inquiry as to whether a particular policy is wise and acceptable or whether better policy could be drafted---Court…
2023 PLC(CS) 530 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CHAND IQBAL VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB S.21---Locus poenitentiae, principle of---Decisive step---Scope---Decisive step in view of locus poenitentiae principle, does not allow to retain the benefit, if order, notification or recommendation, s…
2023 PLC(CS) 530 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CHAND IQBAL VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB S.4(1)(b)---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199 & 212---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---High Court, jurisdiction of---Petitioners were terminated for a fault on the part of Punjab Public Ser…
2023 PLC(CS) 530 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CHAND IQBAL VS PROVINCE OF THE PUNJAB Reglns. 25, 26 & 63---General Clauses Act (X of 1897), S. 21---Constitution of Pakistan Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Restoration in service---Withdrawal of recommendation by Service Commission--…
2023 PLC(CS) 580 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mrs. TANVEER RAFIQUE VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary S&GAD Monetary benefits---Implementation of judgment of the Supreme Court---Scope---Petitioner, a Senior Headmistress, filed applications to the Secretary, School Education…
2023 PLC(CS) 580 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mrs. TANVEER RAFIQUE VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary S&GAD art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Judicial review---Scope---Judges, in judicial review proceedings, traditionally are cautious in entertaining fact-based challe…
2023 PLC(CS) 580 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mrs. TANVEER RAFIQUE VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary S&GAD S. 8---Promotion---Scope---Section 8(5) does not indicate either expressly or by way of necessary intendment that it operates retrospectively---Since it does not, it c…
2023 PLC(CS) 580 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mrs. TANVEER RAFIQUE VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary S&GAD S. 6---Effect of repeal---Scope---Provision of S. 6 requires a pending lis to be decided in accordance with applicable law in vogue at the time of the initiation of th…
2023 PLC(CS) 580 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mrs. TANVEER RAFIQUE VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary S&GAD art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Judicial review---Scope---Mistake as to a fact can also vitiate a decision where the fact is a condition precedent to exercise…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art. 212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---While in the case of a sub-constitutional ouster, a Superior Court zealo…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore arts.212 & 199---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Constitutional jurisdiction---Bar of jurisdiction---Scope---Exclusionary p…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art. 212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---While most of the other ouster clauses contained in the Constitution of…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art.212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---article 212 of the Constitution opening with a non-obstante clause expres…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art. 212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---No particular shape or form of an order exists that can be challenged be…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art.212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---Judicially acknowledged grounds to read down an ouster clause are not app…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art.212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---Bar contained in art. 212 of the Constitution ousts jurisdiction of all o…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore arts. 212 & 199---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Constitutional jurisdiction---Bar of jurisdiction---Scope---Rationale exi…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore arts.212 & 199---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Constitutional jurisdiction---Bar of jurisdiction---Scope---article 212 of…
2023 PLC(CS) 620 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMNA MAJEED VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Punjab, Lahore art. 212---administrative Courts and Tribunals---Scope---Even if a question of fundamental rights including discrimination is inv…
2023 PLC(CS) 662 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TAHIR NAWAZ CHEEMA VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art.199---Constitutional petition---Statutory body---Non-statutory service rules---Effect---Principle of 'Master and Servant'---Exceptions---Employees of a statutory body whose condition…
2023 PLC(CS) 662 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD TAHIR NAWAZ CHEEMA VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Rr. 2(1)(g), 5, 12 & 25---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Termination of service---Public Sector Company---Petitioners were employees of NESPAK which was a…
2023 PLC(CS) 727 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS KHALID MAHMOOD Rr.2(xviii), 4 & Scheds. I & II---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.25---Discrimination---Allotment of plot---Entitlement---Dispute was with regard to…
2023 PLC(CS) 727 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS KHALID MAHMOOD art.25---Discrimination---Differential treatment---Scope---Differential treatment under art. 25 of the Constitution is allowed in respect of person…
2023 PLC(CS) 727 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS KHALID MAHMOOD art.25---Discrimination---Intelligible differentia, principle of---Scope---In order to establish reasonable classification based on intelligible di…
2023 PLC(CS) 749 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MIRZA SHAHZEB VS CITY POLICE OFFICER, POLICE LINE, RAWALPINDI Concealment---Meaning.
2023 PLC(CS) 749 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MIRZA SHAHZEB VS CITY POLICE OFFICER, POLICE LINE, RAWALPINDI Misstatement---Meaning.
2023 PLC(CS) 749 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MIRZA SHAHZEB VS CITY POLICE OFFICER, POLICE LINE, RAWALPINDI art.199---Constitutional petition---Concealment of facts---advertised posts---Rejection of candidature---Petitioners applied for posts in question and their candidature was rejec…
2023 PLC(CS) 749 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MIRZA SHAHZEB VS CITY POLICE OFFICER, POLICE LINE, RAWALPINDI Conflicting views---Effect---If a view is formed by a Bench of the Court, it is binding for the Bench comprising of same number of Judge/Judges---If some Bench of similar nomencl…
2023 PLC(CS) 785 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NATIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES PAKISTAN (NESPAK) VS MUHAMMAD NAWAZ CHEEMA art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Termination from service---Non-statutory rules of service---Scope---Respondents assailed their termination orders…
2023 PLC(CS) 785 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NATIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES PAKISTAN (NESPAK) VS MUHAMMAD NAWAZ CHEEMA art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Termination from service---Non-statutory rules of service---'Master-Servant relationship'---Scope---Where conditi…
2023 PLC(CS) 785 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NATIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES PAKISTAN (NESPAK) VS MUHAMMAD NAWAZ CHEEMA Rr.2(1)(g) & 25---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Termination from service---Non-statutory rules of service---Constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---Respondents ass…
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Ss. 9, 11 & 12---Powers of Chief Executive Officer---appointment of employees---Termination from service---Scope---Words appearing in subsection (6) of S.9 "subject to this act and gener…
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY S.9---Powers of Chief Executive Officer---Scope---Subsection (6) of S.9 contemplates delegation of all powers and functions of the Authority and the Board onto the Chief Executive Office…
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Statutory delegation and agency---Distinction---In the case of statutory delegation, the delegate exercises the powers and performs the functions delegated to him by acting in his own na…
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Master and servant---Scope---Absent the statutory underpinning, the rule of master and servant would govern the employment contract of an employee.
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Statutory delegation---Scope---In the case of a statutory corporation the power and authority to do any particular thing is to be found in the language of the statute, what it expressly…
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Mala fide, allegation of---Scope---Mala fide being a question of fact cannot be adjudicated by High Court in exercise of its constitutional jurisd…
2023 PLC(CS) 804 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL HASEEB KHAN VS RAVI URBAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Statutory delegation---Scope---Where a delegate is exercising the power delegated to him under a statute, he may validly exercise that power in his own name---When a power is so delegate…
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