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2023 PLC(CS) 1403 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JALIL AHMED VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Secretary Local Government and Community Organization, Punjab, Lahore Employee of Town Municipal Administration---Major penalty---Dismissal from service---Wilful defiance of re-instatement order p…
2023 PLC(CS) 1403 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JALIL AHMED VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Secretary Local Government and Community Organization, Punjab, Lahore S.12(2)---Civil service---Employee of Town Municipal Administration---Re-instatement of employee---Fraud or misrepresentation,…
2023 PLC(CS) 1507 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UME JAMEELA VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB art. 199---Constitutional petition---Laches, principle of---applicability---Petitioners called in question the order which was passed on 05-06-2020 but they had challenged the same on 17-08-2021 after lapse…
2023 PLC(CS) 1507 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
UME JAMEELA VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Regularization of service---Policy matter---Appointment criteria---Petitioners were contract employees and aggrieved of not being regularizing in service---Petitioners assailed selection criteria of 2nd Div…
2023 PLC(CS) 1552 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ANAM BIBI VS SECRETARY, PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, LAHORE If a subordinate legislation is in conflict with the primary legislation, then it is void and ultra vires---Similarly, through a policy, a valid subordinate legislation can ne…
2023 PLC(CS) 1552 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ANAM BIBI VS SECRETARY, PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, LAHORE Principles of delegated legislation entitle the delegatee to carry out the mandate of the legislature, either by framing rules, or regulations, which translate and apply the s…
2023 PLC(CS) 1552 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ANAM BIBI VS SECRETARY, PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, LAHORE S. 10---Punjab Public Service Commission Regulations, 2016, Regln. 3---Policy Decisions---Scope---Punjab Public Service Commission Regulations, 2016 were formulated by taking…
2023 PLC(CS) 1552 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ANAM BIBI VS SECRETARY, PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, LAHORE S. 10---Punjab Public Service Commission Regulations, 2016, Reglns. 3 & 23(e)---Constitutional petition---Policy Decision in conflict with regulations---Effect---Petitioner ap…
2023 CLC 138 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ILYAS AHMAD VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, SIALKOT arts. 76, 77 & 129(g)---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XIII, R.4---Subsequent/bona fide purchaser---Petitioner purchased suit property from seller/occupant having ownership based on acq…
2023 CLC 161 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AMIR SOHAIL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT S.10 & Sched.---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art.120---Guardians and Wards Act (VIII of 1890), S.25---Minor/son filed suit for maintenance against the appellant/father and appellant filed suit for custody o…
2023 CLC 161 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AMIR SOHAIL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT art.129(e)---Presumption of regularity was attached to all judicial and official acts, which include orders of courts.
2023 CLC 161 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AMIR SOHAIL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT S.10 & 17---Minor could not be burdened with onus to prove the financial status/capacity of his father to be held entitled to maintenance allowance, rather it is for the father to prove his financial source…
2023 CLC 161 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AMIR SOHAIL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT S.17---Income status of father of minor, non-disclosure of---Adverse inference---Case of maintenance of minor/child---In case of father's non-disclosure of his income/paying capacity, an adverse inference c…
2023 CLC 161 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AMIR SOHAIL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT art.120---Family Court---Past maintenance of minor---Suit for recovery of maintenance allowance falls within the residuary art.120 of the Limitation act, 1908, providing six years limitation.
2023 CLC 182 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASKAR OIL SERVICES (PVT.) LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) Islamabad arts.4 & 10-a---Equal treatment under law---Right to fair trial---Scope---Every citizen and every person for the t…
2023 CLC 182 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASKAR OIL SERVICES (PVT.) LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) Islamabad Subsequent events---Principle---High Court can take notice of events which take place during pendency of proceedin…
2023 CLC 182 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASKAR OIL SERVICES (PVT.) LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) Islamabad S.22---Pakistan Oil (Refining, Blending, Transportation, Storage and Marketing) Rules 2016, R.35(2)---Constitution…
2023 CLC 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAUKAT IQBAL VS MUHAMMAD SHUMAIL AKRAM S.56----Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXVII, Rr. 1 & 2---Recovery suit on the basis of negotiable instrument----Part Performance---Section 56 of Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 specifically pr…
2023 CLC 193 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAUKAT IQBAL VS MUHAMMAD SHUMAIL AKRAM O.XXXVII, Rr.1 & 2----Negotiable Instruments Act (XXVI of 1881), S.56---Suit for recovery---Expression "sum of amount undertaken or ordered to be paid to payee"---Interpretation---Respondent/plaintiff…
2023 CLC 201 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NISAR AHMED VS Haji FAZAL DAD S.30---Pre-emption suit---Limitation---Section 30 of Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1991, provided four eventualities to compute the limitation for instituting a suit for pre-emption---All the four were independent an…
2023 CLC 201 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NISAR AHMED VS Haji FAZAL DAD Ss.13, 30 & 31---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VII, R.11 & O.VI, R.17---Suit for pre-emption, institution of---Limitation---Notice to the petitioner/public at large---Petitioner averred in plaint that he…
2023 CLC 201 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NISAR AHMED VS Haji FAZAL DAD Ss.30 & 31---Pre-emption suit---Limitation---Scope---Sections 30 & 31 of Punjab Pre-emption Act, 1991, were independent in their nature---Both the said provisions were having no effect/impact on each other---Ha…
2023 CLC 219 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RASHEED AHMED KHAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Defence art.140-a [as inserted by Constitution (Eighteenth amendment) act (X of 2010)]---Local Government System---Scope---after insertion of art.140-a in the Consti…
2023 CLC 219 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RASHEED AHMED KHAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Defence Ss.13-a, 14 & 15-E (1) proviso---Constitution of Pakistan, arts.140-a & 199---Constitutional petition---Local government---Cantonment Board---Varying constit…
2023 PLD 225 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL MALIK alias BADSHAH KHAN VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Ss. 19 & 22---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Title of ownership---Determination---Petitioner/tenant assailed eviction order on the plea that after r…
2023 CLC 239 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IMRAN AHMED KHAN NIAZI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN arts.204, 175 & 218---Elections act (XXXIII of 2017), Ss. 10 & 2(ix)---Constitutional petition---Power to punish for contempt---Jurisdiction of Election Commission---Scope---Petitioner assail…
2023 CLC 252 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ERUM LATIF VS IMTIAZ KHAN Ss.39, 42 & 54---Suit for cancellation of document, declaration and injunction---Limitation---Fraud, knowledge of---Proof---Appellant / plaintiff sought cancellation of registered sale deed executed in favour…
2023 CLC 252 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ERUM LATIF VS IMTIAZ KHAN S.17---Registration of document---Principle---When document creates an interest in property, such document requires compulsory registration.
2023 CLC 252 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ERUM LATIF VS IMTIAZ KHAN S.12---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell---Title passing of---Pre-condition---Such suit if decreed, passes no title to decree holder till such time that a registered sale deed is executed in i…
2023 CLC 301 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SURIYA NAFEES VS MUHAMMAD RAMZAN SHAHID S.5, Sched.---Suit for recovery of articles belonging to wife---Maintainability---Scope---Question before High Court was whether Family Court had jurisdiction to entertain the suit where contention of…
2023 CLC 324 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHAZI FABRICS INTERNATIONAL LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art.199---Judicial review---Factual issue---Scope---If matter relates to undisputed facts and has wider implications which relates to economic life of a nation in general, High Cour…
2023 CLC 324 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHAZI FABRICS INTERNATIONAL LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art.199---Constitutional petition---Public law---Natural gas sale price---Determination---Zero rated sector---Petitioners were aggrieved of additional security imposed by Sui Northe…
2023 CLC 355 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM FARID VS AHMAD KHAN S.4---Inheritance---Petitioners/grandchildren of deceased filed suit for declaration claiming entitlement of 7/128 share in his total legacy being legal heirs of pre-deceased daughter of deceased/propositus---Tria…
2023 CLC 380 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SAKHI MUHAMMAD VS HAJI AHMED Ss.135 & 147---Partial partition---Maintainability---Respondents/plaintiffs claimed that the suit property had attained the residential character which was joint inter se parties and that the petitioners were in…
2023 CLC 380 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SAKHI MUHAMMAD VS HAJI AHMED Election doctrine of---Pleadings, estoppel and res-judicata, relation with---Scope---Choice to initiate/pursue one out of host of available concurrent/co-existent proceedings/actions/remedies from a forum of com…
2023 CLC 430 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ATIA KAUSAR VS NASREEN GUL Ss.135 & 161---application for partition---appeal---Improvements / construction during pendency of appeal---Scope---Petitioner was aggrieved of the observation given by the additional District Judge to the extent…
2023 CLC 471 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS SHAHID IQBAL Effect---Fraud vitiates the most solemn proceedings---Any edifice so raised on the basis of such fraudulent transaction stands automatically dismantled---Any ill-gotten gain achieved by committing fraud cannot…
2023 CLC 471 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS SHAHID IQBAL Ss.22 & 25---Pakistan (Administration of Evacuee Property) Act (XII of 1957), S.41---Evacuee property---Civil Court, jurisdiction of---Fraudulent transaction---Concurrent findings of two Courts below---Dispute…
2023 CLC 471 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS SHAHID IQBAL S.28---Registration of document of sale deed of land---Territorial jurisdiction---Registration authority is not competent to register sale deed of any property beyond its territorial jurisdiction---Such sale d…
2023 CLC 471 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS SHAHID IQBAL O.I, R.10---Necessary party---Scope---In absence of necessary party, no effective decree or order can be passed.
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) S.8---Ownership and possession, relationship between---In suit for possession, the declaration of ownership was an inbuilt relief granted to the decree-holder---Once he was found to be enti…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) arts.47 & 75---Evidence of deceased in prior judicial proceedings---Copies of statements of the deceased witnesses were submitted in earlier suit which suit was dismissed by Civil Court and…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) S.5---Delay, condonation of---Law of limitation imposed embargo in filing the suits/appeals/other remedies to save the parties from endless litigation---Such embargo could only be condoned,…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) S.8---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 47 & 75---Specific performance of sale contract---Subject land was transferred by predecessor of respondents (admitted/original vendor) to predece…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) S.14---Principle---Time span consumed in proceedings of the earlier suit cannot be condoned, as it is not fulfilling the essential conditions laid down in S.14 of the Limitation Act, 1908.
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) S.3---Compliance of statutory period within which a right had to be exercised/enforced was mandatory and the Court could not ignore period stipulated in the Limitation Act, 1908 even if no…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) S.115---Revisional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---High Court could only decide the cases in which the interference was warranted---Judgments/decrees, which were found to be illegal ,…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) Responsibility of court---Court could not pass an order of its liking, solely on the basis of its vision/wisdom, rather it was bound/obligated to render decisions in accordance with law and…
2023 CLC 504 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AYUB (DECEASED) VS HASHIM KHAN (DECEASED) arts.47 & 75---Evidence of deceased person---Discarded in prior judicial proceeding---Scope---Copies of statements of the deceased witnesses were submitted in earlier suit which suit was di…
2023 CLC 543 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. NIGHAT WAHEED VS ARIF LATIF Proof---Essential ingredients to prove the oral gift missing---Perusal of the plaint reveled that it did not provide description of making of offer and acceptance of the same by the plaintiff/alleged donee a…
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