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2023 MLD 483 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN JAVED VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, TOBA TEK SINGH S. 2---Contract Act (IX of 1872), Ss. 182 & 238---Contract between an advocate and his client is essentially governed by the general rules of contract as embodied under the various pr…
2023 MLD 483 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN JAVED VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, TOBA TEK SINGH Preamble & S.17(2)---Decision of the matter through special oath---Scope---Wisdom behind enactment of Family Courts Act, 1964 is a swift/expeditious settlement of family disputes for…
2023 MLD 483 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN JAVED VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, TOBA TEK SINGH S. 8---Word "party"---Advocate included under the meaning of "party"---Scope---Word 'party' as hinted in Ss. 8 & 9 of Oaths Act, 1873, included an Advocate of the party and the offer…
2023 MLD 483 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IRFAN JAVED VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, TOBA TEK SINGH art. 199--- Constitutional jurisdiction---Nature and scope---Extraordinary constitutional jurisdiction under the provisions of art. 199 of the Constitution, 1973, was discretionary/eq…
2023 MLD 511 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RAB NAWAZ VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE O. IX, Rr. 9 & 13---Only on the basis of ex-parte proceedings, a suit cannot be decreed when it does not fulfill the other legal requirements.
2023 MLD 511 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RAB NAWAZ VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE art. 199---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 151---Conversion of proceedings---Under O. IX, R. 13, C.P.C., as per law can be converted into application under S. 12(2), C.P.C. and under Constitutiona…
2023 MLD 511 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RAB NAWAZ VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S. 3---Limitation period against illegal/void order against illegal order there is no limitation and time will not run against a void order.
2023 MLD 511 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RAB NAWAZ VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Ss. 12(2), 151, O. IX, Rr. 9, 13, O. X, Rr. 17, 19, 20 & O. XLIII, R. 1(d)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10A---Specific Relief Act (I of 1877), S. 42---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), S. 3---Constituti…
2023 MLD 511 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RAB NAWAZ VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE Ss. 9 & 42---Primary duty of the Court was that when suit was instituted/entrusted to the court, the court should examine the suit, its form and make its opinion regarding maintainability of the same--…
2023 MLD 525 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CHIEF EDITOR MUHAMMAD RIAZ ANJUM VS Dr. MOHAMMAD SHAHBAZ S. 3---Defamation---Libel and slander---Scope---Defamation is publication of statement which reflects on a person's reputation and tends to lower him in the estimation of right-thinki…
2023 MLD 525 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
CHIEF EDITOR MUHAMMAD RIAZ ANJUM VS Dr. MOHAMMAD SHAHBAZ Ss. 3, 8 & 9---Suit for defamation---Recovery of damages---Magnitude of suffering---Determination---Statutory notice, issuance of---Proof---Appellants/defendants were aggrieved of jud…
2023 MLD 541 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JIND WADA VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S. 151 & O. XXIII, R. 1---Restoration of suit---Suit for declaration was instituted by the petitioners claiming that they were owners of the agricultural land on ground of inheritance; that registered…
2023 MLD 541 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JIND WADA VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE O. XXIII, R. 1---Conditional withdrawal of the suit---Scope---Suit could be withdrawn by the plaintiff conditionally or unconditionally---If the petitioner wanted to withdraw the suit conditionally on…
2023 MLD 541 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JIND WADA VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.151---Inherent powers of the Court, invoking of---Requirements---Court was bound to mention the reasons for invoking the provision of S. 151 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908---Court could only exercise…
2023 MLD 541 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
JIND WADA VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE O. XXIII, R. 1---Expression "on such terms as it thinks fit" means an order after affording opportunity of hearing to the other party which is going to be effected by such permission of withdrawal of t…
2023 MLD 551 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NOOR ZAMAN VS Mst. GULLAN O. XVII, R. 3---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Vol. 1, Chap. 13, Para. 6---Court may proceed notwithstanding either party fails to produce evidence---Transfer of suit---Failure to issue notice after transfer…
2023 MLD 559 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Rao KHALID IQBAL VS State S. 540---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 132 & 133---Re-summoning of prosecution witnesses for cross-examination---Scope---Accused assailed order passed by Trial Court whereby it had dismissed the application…
2023 CLC 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMMAN GUL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, RAWALPINDI Ss.10. 11 & 17---Provision of Civil Procedure Code, 1908---applicability---all provisions of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 except Ss.10 & 11, C.P.C. have been ousted to the proceedings before…
2023 CLC 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMMAN GUL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, RAWALPINDI O.XXI---Execution proceedings---Scope---Execution proceedings are not synonymous to original proceedings where Court has to make an adjudication of the respective rights of parties, which ult…
2023 CLC 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. AMMAN GUL VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, RAWALPINDI Ss.13 & 25-a---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S.38---Execution of decree---Transfer of proceedings---Dispute was with regard to transfer of proceedings to another Court to execute decree p…
2023 MLD 602 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SOHAIL SHAHZAD VS CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 218, 233, 234 & 236---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Code of Conduct, violation of---Alternate and efficacious remedy---Petitioner/candidate sought…
2023 MLD 629 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS State Ss. 302, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, abetment, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive was not proved---Scope---Accused were charged for committing murd…
2023 MLD 629 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS State Ss. 302, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, abetment, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of weapon of offence from the accused---Scope---Accused were ch…
2023 MLD 629 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS State Ss. 302, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, abetment, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Presence of eyewitnesses at the spot was doubted---Scope---Accused were…
2023 MLD 629 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS State Ss. 302, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, abetment, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Unnatural conduct of the witnesses---Scope---Accused were charged for co…
2023 MLD 629 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIASAT ALI VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If there is only one doubt, the benefit of the same must go to the accused.
2023 MLD 654 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AJMAL (DECEASED) VS ABDUL KHALIQ S 12---Suit for specific performance of oral contract----Failure to provide essential details with regards to oral sale---Creditability of witnesses---Suit instituted by respondents/plaintiffs/was u…
2023 MLD 654 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AJMAL (DECEASED) VS ABDUL KHALIQ S. 100---Second appeal---Scope ---Second appeal is restricted, yet could be exercised if findings of fact arrived at by Courts below are found to be based upon misreading, non-reading or misinterpre…
2023 MLD 654 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AJMAL (DECEASED) VS ABDUL KHALIQ art. 129, illustration (g)---Oral Sale---Proof ---Best witnesses---Held---Vendors, who by transferring their shares had already stood with the plaintiffs could be best persons to support their stanc…
2023 MLD 665 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HAYAT (DECEASED) VS Mst. FATEH KHATOON Ss. 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 115---Suit for declaration and injunction--- Gift mutation--- Minor donor--- Void instrument---Concurrent findings of two Courts below---Respondent/ p…
2023 MLD 695 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Doctor YASMIN RASHID VS ELECTION COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 4(3) & 77---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Polling agent, appointment of---Directions---Dispute was with regard to appointing polling agent from out…
2023 MLD 739 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MAHMOODI BEGUM VS MOHAMMAD EISA S. 5---Condonation of delay---Grounds---Counsel not available---Not a good ground for condonation of delay---Inalienable obligation of a litigating party is to keep itself abreast of the proceedings of the ca…
2023 MLD 761 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IJAZ AHMAD VS KHIZAR HAYAT Ss. 42 & 54---Oral gift (Hibba)---Proof---Pleadings---Scope---Suit for declaration and injunction assailing mutations based upon oral gift---Suit and appeal filed by appellants/plaintiffs were dismissed by two Cou…
2023 MLD 797 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SIKANDAR HAYAT GONDAL VS BASHIR AHMAD QURESHI S. 77(3)---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 8---Suit for recovery of possession of property---Civil Court, jurisdiction of---Defendants specifically raised plea that Civil Court lacked jurisd…
2023 MLD 810 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AZMAT KAMAL KYANI VS REGISTRAR, CO-OPERATIVES SOCIETIES PUNJAB Ss. 4 & 18-a---Constitution of Pakistan, art. 199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Scope---Petitioner sought direction to the respondents to convene a general meeti…
2023 MLD 820 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Judicial restraint---Policy of government---Scope---Courts should exercise judicial restraint and refrain from passing adverse orders or taking any actions that cou…
2023 MLD 820 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ALI VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Ss. 32 & 34---Punjab Land Revenue Act (XVII of 1967), S. 175-A---Illegal occupation of State land---Village pond---Beneficial for ecosystem---Petitioner challenged the dismissal of his constitutional petit…
2023 CLC 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PUNJAB PROVINCIAL COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED VS MEMBER (COLONIES) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB, LAHORE S.10---Punjab Rented Premises Act (VII of 2009), S. 11---Issue of statements of conditions of tenancies---Cancellation of lease---Sub-letting---…
2023 CLC 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PUNJAB PROVINCIAL COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED VS MEMBER (COLONIES) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB, LAHORE S.23---What considerations and objects are lawful and what not---Scope---If any order is passed by any authority beyond its jurisdiction and aga…
2023 CLC 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PUNJAB PROVINCIAL COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED VS MEMBER (COLONIES) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB, LAHORE S.10---Issue of statements of conditions of tenancies---Cancellation of lease---Scope---Petitioner-Bank challenged the order passed by Member (C…
2023 CLC 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PUNJAB PROVINCIAL COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED VS MEMBER (COLONIES) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB, LAHORE S.10---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 47---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 115---Estoppel of tenant and of licensee of person in posse…
2023 CLC 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PUNJAB PROVINCIAL COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED VS MEMBER (COLONIES) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB, LAHORE S.10---Issue of statements of conditions of tenancies---Scope---No person shall be deemed to be a tenant or to have any right or title in the la…
2023 CLC 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PUNJAB PROVINCIAL COOPERATIVE BANK LIMITED VS MEMBER (COLONIES) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB, LAHORE art. 5---Obedience to Constitution and law---Public functionaries---Scope---all the affairs of the state are managed and run by the instrument o…
2023 MLD 838 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PREMIUM DEVELOPERS through Chief Executive VS MUHAMMAD TARIQ agreement to sell---Scope---agreement to sell as a whole has to be considered and read.
2023 MLD 838 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PREMIUM DEVELOPERS through Chief Executive VS MUHAMMAD TARIQ Ss. 12 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 115---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell and injunction---Balance consideration amount--- Determination--- Respo…
2023 MLD 860 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTORS (PVT.) LIMITED VS WAPDA art. 163---Dismissal of suit for non-prosecution---Scope---Where an application for the restoration of a petition was filed after the lapse of 80 days, the High Court observed that under art…
2023 MLD 860 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTORS (PVT.) LIMITED VS WAPDA Condonation of delay---Scope---It is imperative for a party to explain the delay of each and every day.
2023 MLD 869 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALLAH NAWAZ KHAN VS MEMBER (JUDL. III) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB LAHORE Ss. 4(28) & 180---Punjab Land Revenue Rules, 1968, Rr. 17 & 18---Lambardar/Headman---Appointment---Belonging to dominant tribe of the village, relevance---Disqualificatio…
2023 MLD 869 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALLAH NAWAZ KHAN VS MEMBER (JUDL. III) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB LAHORE S. 180---Punjab Land Revenue Rules, 1968, Rr. 17 & 22---Lambardar---Appointment---Lambardar is purely an administrative post of its own class---Lambardari neither can be…
2023 MLD 869 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALLAH NAWAZ KHAN VS MEMBER (JUDL. III) BOARD OF REVENUE PUNJAB LAHORE S. 180--- Punjab Land Revenue Rules, 1968, R. 17---Lambardar/Headman--- Appointment--- Qualification--- Strength of community is one of the salient qualifications for app…
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