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2023 PLC(CS) 1353 SUPREME-COURT
NADIA NAZ VS The PRESIDENT OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD art. 188---Review of judgments by the Supreme Court---Grounds---Error apparent on the face of the judgment---Scope---Every judgment of the Supreme Court is presumed to be…
2023 PLC(CS) 1353 SUPREME-COURT
NADIA NAZ VS The PRESIDENT OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD S. 2(h)---"Harassment" as defined under section 2(h) of the Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010---Meaning and scope---[Per Ayesha A. Malik,…
2023 PLC(CS) 1353 SUPREME-COURT
NADIA NAZ VS The PRESIDENT OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD Purposive approach---Meaning and scope---While interpreting statutes, the cardinal rule is to take the purposive approach which means to look at the meaning of the words…
2023 PLC(CS) 1353 SUPREME-COURT
NADIA NAZ VS The PRESIDENT OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD S.2(h)---Harassment---Victim's perspective---In cases of harassment, the victim's perspective is relevant as against the notion of acceptable behaviour---Standard of a re…
2023 PLC(CS) 1392 SUPREME-COURT
ASRAR AHMED VS CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN AERONAUTICAL COMPLEX BOARD, KAMRA Maxim 'qui approbat non reprobat' (one who approbates cannot reprobate)---Meaning and scope---Person taking advantage under an instrument, which both grants a benefit and im…
2023 PLC(CS) 1392 SUPREME-COURT
ASRAR AHMED VS CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN AERONAUTICAL COMPLEX BOARD, KAMRA Ss. 3 & 7(a)---PAC Board Employees (Service) Rules, 2002, Rr. 2 & 4(g)---Employees of Mirage Rebuild Factory, Kamra appointed before promulgation of the Pakistan Aeronautica…
2023 PLC(CS) 1409 SUPREME-COURT
Peerzada WAQAR ALAM VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) through Chairman, Islamabad S. 10---United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Art. 27---Persons With Disabilities (PWDs)---National Accountability Bu…
2023 PLC(CS) 1409 SUPREME-COURT
Peerzada WAQAR ALAM VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) through Chairman, Islamabad S. 10---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 9, 18 & 25---United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Art. 27---Persons With Dis…
2023 PLC(CS) 1444 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAKISTAN RAILWAYS VS UMAR DARAZ arts. 9 & 38(d)---Civil service---Incapacitated employee---adjustment in another suitable and appropriate post keeping in view the degree and level of incapacitation---In case an of…
2023 PLC(CS) 1444 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAKISTAN RAILWAYS VS UMAR DARAZ Incapacitated employee of Pakistan Railways---Visual impairment---Adjustment in another suitable and appropriate post keeping in view the degree and level of incapacitation---Perusa…
2023 PLC(CS) 1456 SUPREME-COURT
ABID JAN VS MINISTRY OF DEFENCE through Secretary, Islamabad S. 4---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199 & 212---Constitutional petition filed by the civil servant before the High Court instead of approaching the Federal Service Tribunal (FS…
2023 PLC(CS) 1456 SUPREME-COURT
ABID JAN VS MINISTRY OF DEFENCE through Secretary, Islamabad Maxim 'actus curiae neminem gravabit'---Scope---It is the foremost duty of a Court and Tribunal to do complete justice---Patent and obvious error or oversight on the part of Court…
2023 PLC(CS) 1499 SUPREME-COURT
FIDA HUSSAIN VS CHIEF SECRETARY, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, CIVIL SECRETARIAT Disciplinary proceedings---De novo inquiry, directions for---Authorized officer (Member, Board of Revenue)---Authorized officer cannot issue directions to the competent…
2023 PLC(CS) 1544 SUPREME-COURT
Dr. MUHAMMAD AMIN VS ZARAI TARAQIATI BANK LIMITED Dismissal from service---Unauthorized absence from duty---Cases filed in multiple forums to challenge dismissal from service---Overlapping proceedings in Civil Court and High Court---Proprie…
2023 PLC(CS) 1558 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD YASEEN VS SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF INTERIOR AND NARCOTICS CONTROL, NARCOTICS CONTROL DIVISION, ISLAMABAD art. 25(1)---Police official---assistant Sub-Inspector in anti-Narcotics Force (aNF)---allegation of illegally snatching money f…
2023 PLD 277 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Defence Rawalpindi VS Mst. ZAKIA BEGUM S. 23---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 9, 14, 23 & 24---Land acquisition---Compensation---Constitutional dimension of the right to compensation state…
2023 PLD 277 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Defence Rawalpindi VS Mst. ZAKIA BEGUM Ss. 23 & 24---Punjab Land Acquisition Rules, 1983, R. 10(1)(iii)---West Pakistan Land Revenue Assessment Rules, 1968, R. 4---Land acquisition---Compen…
2023 PLD 277 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Defence Rawalpindi VS Mst. ZAKIA BEGUM S. 23---West Pakistan Land Revenue Assessment Rules, 1968, R.4---Land acquisition---Compensation---Land acquired falling within different categories s…
2023 PLD 298 SUPREME-COURT
Qazi NAVEED UL ISLAM VS DISTRICT JUDGE, GUJRAT O.XXVIII, R. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10A---Frivolous litigation---Abusing process of the Court---Costs, imposition of---Scope, purpose and benefits of awarding costs stated.
2023 PLD 298 SUPREME-COURT
Qazi NAVEED UL ISLAM VS DISTRICT JUDGE, GUJRAT S. 476---Perjury---Discretionary power of Court under section 476, Cr.P.C, to take cognizance stated.
2023 PLD 298 SUPREME-COURT
Qazi NAVEED UL ISLAM VS DISTRICT JUDGE, GUJRAT O.XXVIII, R. 3---Frivolous litigation---Abusing process of the Court---Costs, imposition of---Litigation initiated by a person having no interest in the matter to avenge a private grudge---Friv…
2023 PLC 65 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD S. 42---Penalty imposed by department challenged by employee before the Labour Court---Acceptance of dues by employee---Whether employee estopped from c…
2023 PLC 65 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Law of limitation reduces an effect of extinguishment of a right of a party when significant lapses occur---When no sufficient cause for such lapses, de…
2023 PLC 65 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Court is obliged to independently advert to the question of limitation and determine the same and to take cognizance of delay without limitation having…
2023 PLC 65 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Scope---Intention of the provisions of the law of limitation is not to give a right where there is none, but to impose a bar after a specified period, a…
2023 PLC 65 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Rr. 5(iii) & 5(iv)---Disciplinary proceedings---Regular inquiry---Scope---No rigid or definitive rule that in each and every case after issuing show cau…
2023 PLC 65 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Void order---No relaxation is available in law to approach the court after deep slumber or inordinate delay under the garb of labeling an order or actio…
2023 PLC 135 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELEVISION CORPORATION VS NOOR SANAT SHAH Tort of interest in property---Economic loss---Proof and burden of proof---Suit for damages arising out of an employment matter---Jurisdiction of Civil Court to award decree for damages cau…
2023 PLC 135 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELEVISION CORPORATION VS NOOR SANAT SHAH Vicarious liability---Corporation vicariously liable for the acts of its employees---Employees of a Corporation not implementing orders of National Industrial Relations Commission---Factors…
2023 PLC 135 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELEVISION CORPORATION VS NOOR SANAT SHAH Vicarious liability---Suit for damages for tortious liability against a State entity/Corporation--- Maintainability--- Sovereign immunity---Scope---State Corporation cannot claim that it ca…
2023 PLC 135 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELEVISION CORPORATION VS NOOR SANAT SHAH S. 9---Tortious breach by a State Corporation resulting in pure economic loss to its employee---Suit for damages for tortious liability against the State entity/Corporation---Maintainabilit…
2023 PLD 306 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IMTIYAZ VS Ch. MUHAMMAD NAEEM O. XI & O. XIX---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 4, 10A, 178 & 191---Code of Conduct for Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, Arts. I, IV & IX---Supreme Court---Constitution of Benches and fixa…
2023 PLD 316 SUPREME-COURT
PESHAWAR ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LTD. (PESCO) VS SS PLOYPROPYLENE (PVT.) LTD., PESHAWAR Ss. 7(2)(g), 12-a & 31(4)---NEPRa Determination of Consumer-end-Tariff (Methodology and Process) Guidelines, 2014, Clauses 6(d), 40(1) & 50(1)---Constit…
2023 PLD 316 SUPREME-COURT
PESHAWAR ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LTD. (PESCO) VS SS PLOYPROPYLENE (PVT.) LTD., PESHAWAR art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Policy making---Economic regulation---Domain of the Executive---Determining policies is not t…
2023 PLD 316 SUPREME-COURT
PESHAWAR ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LTD. (PESCO) VS SS PLOYPROPYLENE (PVT.) LTD., PESHAWAR S. 31(4)---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 154(1) & 157(2)(d)---Electricity tariff, determination of---Domain of National Electric Power Regulatory Auth…
2023 PLD 316 SUPREME-COURT
PESHAWAR ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LTD. (PESCO) VS SS PLOYPROPYLENE (PVT.) LTD., PESHAWAR Ss. 7(3)(a) & 7(2)(i)---National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA)---Electricity tariff, determination of---Fuel Price Adjustment Charges ('th…
2023 PLD 340 SUPREME-COURT
SHAH ZAMAN KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar Ouster of jurisdiction clause---Interpretation---Provision ousting the jurisdiction of a civil court is to be construed strictly and established rights ca…
2023 PLD 340 SUPREME-COURT
SHAH ZAMAN KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar Climate change---Preservation of forests and trees---Climate change and its dimension with respect to Islam explained.
2023 PLD 340 SUPREME-COURT
SHAH ZAMAN KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Chief Secretary, Peshawar Ss. 6(1)(c), 17, 18(4), 29 & 92---Forest act (XVI of 1927), S. 29 (since repealed)---Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Land Revenue act (XVII of 1967), S. 172---Qanun-e-…
2023 PLD 359 SUPREME-COURT
KHAN AFSAR VS Mst. QUDRAT JAN (widow) Sched. I, art. 148---Commencement of period of limitation for a mortgagor to redeem the mortgage---Scope---Cause of action for a mortgagor to redeem the mortgage and recover the possession of the mortga…
2023 PLD 362 SUPREME-COURT
SAADAT KHAN VS SHAHID-UR-REHMAN S. 42---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), S. 18 & Sched. I, Art. 120---Inheritance---Female heirs---Suit instituted by a female legal heir against her brother for declaration of her ownership rights as to the prop…
2023 PLD 362 SUPREME-COURT
SAADAT KHAN VS SHAHID-UR-REHMAN S. 42---Co-sharers---Suit instituted by one co-sharer for declaration of his/her ownership rights---Accrual of right to sue---Criterion for determining the actual denial of a co-sharer's rights as to joint pr…
2023 PLD 371 SUPREME-COURT
ZAFARAN KHAN VS NIZAM ULLAH R. 10---Government job---Procedural irregularity---Appointment without advertisement in newspaper---Emergency situation---Appellants were appointed after a selection process held without advertisement in newspape…
2023 PLD 371 SUPREME-COURT
ZAFARAN KHAN VS NIZAM ULLAH arts. 9, 18, 27 & 38 (c)---Liberty to work---Government job---Failure to advertise---Effect---Every citizen who applies for a government job is entitled to it, unless government can establish some reasons for den…
2023 PLD 371 SUPREME-COURT
ZAFARAN KHAN VS NIZAM ULLAH arts. 9, 18, 27, 38(c) & 185(3)---Government Posts not advertised---appointees, removal of---Leave to appeal was granted to consider whether the appointees had been rightly deprived of the means, whereby they did…
2023 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA REGULATORY AUTHORITY VS PAKISTAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION Regln. 9(5)---Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority Ordinance (XIII of 2002), Ss. 29-A & 30(1)(a)---Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority…
2023 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA REGULATORY AUTHORITY VS PAKISTAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION Fiscal statutes---Fiscal statutes are to be interpreted strictly and there is no room for any intendment therein.
2023 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA REGULATORY AUTHORITY VS PAKISTAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION Rules made under a parent statute---Said Rules cannot go beyond the scope of the parent statute and nor can they enlarge the scope of the statutory provisio…
2023 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA REGULATORY AUTHORITY VS PAKISTAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION Ss. 24, 29 & 39---Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Rules, 2002, R. 30---PEMRA (TV/Radio Broadcast Operations) Regulations, 2002, ('the…
2023 PLD 378 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN ELECTRONIC MEDIA REGULATORY AUTHORITY VS PAKISTAN BROADCASTERS ASSOCIATION Regulations made under a parent statute---Regulations must be made by the authority of the parent statute and regulations that do not draw their power from…
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