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2021 SCMR 1728 SUPREME-COURT
ORIENT POWER COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LIMITED S. 74---Compensation for breach of contract where penalty stipulated for---Reasonable compensation---Scope---In working out the amount for reasonable compensation,…
2021 SCMR 1728 SUPREME-COURT
ORIENT POWER COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LIMITED arbitral tribunal---Jurisdiction---Doctrine of Kompetenz-kompetenz (competence-competence)---Scope---No legal impediment in the way of a court or tribunal to decid…
2021 SCMR 1728 SUPREME-COURT
ORIENT POWER COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LIMITED Take or pay clause---Scope and significance.
2021 SCMR 1728 SUPREME-COURT
ORIENT POWER COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LIMITED Scope---For a claim of unjust enrichment to succeed, there must be enrichment at the expense of the plaintiff and this enrichment must be unjust in such a way that…
2021 SCMR 1728 SUPREME-COURT
ORIENT POWER COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LIMITED award---Unjust enrichment---'Juristic reason' for enrichment---Scope---Gas Supply agreement ('GSa') between a power generation facility ('power company') and distr…
2021 SCMR 1771 SUPREME-COURT
NASEEM KHAN VS State Ss. 9(b) & 9(c)---Possession and transportation of 3 kilograms of cannabis---Reappraisal of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Single consolidated sample from all packets sent for forensics---Prosecution's claim of pos…
2021 SCMR 1771 SUPREME-COURT
NASEEM KHAN VS State Purpose of administration of criminal justice was to ensure that majesty of law reigned supreme with peace and equilibrium in the society, it was not designed to wreck vengeance; it must provide opportunity to the erran…
2021 SCMR 1773 SUPREME-COURT
AIJAZ ALI RAJPAR VS State S. 9(c)---Possession and transportation of 1920 grams of cannabis---Reappraisal of evidence---Accused relied upon a habeas corpus petition filed by his brother against the local police to raise the plea of his fals…
2021 SCMR 1775 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD YOUSAF VS NAZEER AHMED KHAN (DECEASED) O. XXIII, R. 1(2)---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 9, 39 & 42--- Withdrawal of suit with permission to file fresh suit---Fatal defect in suit---Scope---In the present case, both parties…
2021 SCMR 1775 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD YOUSAF VS NAZEER AHMED KHAN (DECEASED) O. XXIII, R. 1(2)---Withdrawal of suit with permission to file fresh suit---'Formal defect' in suit---Meaning---Such defect should be only on the point of form of the suit---Formal defect conn…
2021 SCMR 1775 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD YOUSAF VS NAZEER AHMED KHAN (DECEASED) O. XXIII, R. 1(2)---Withdrawal of suit with permission to file fresh suit---Scope---Plaintiff who wished to withdraw his suit with permission to file a fresh suit must show that there was a fo…
2021 SCMR 1775 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD YOUSAF VS NAZEER AHMED KHAN (DECEASED) O. XXIII, R. 1(2)---Withdrawal of suit with permission to file fresh suit---Limitation to file fresh suit---Scope---Order XXIII, R. 1(2), C.P.C. provided that the limitation for filing of the…
2021 SCMR 1783 SUPREME-COURT
MUSHTAQUE HUSSAIN VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Petition seeking enhancement of sentence from life imprisonment to death sentence, dismissal of---Imprisonment for life already served out by the convict---Effect---Accused was convicted u…
2021 SCMR 1785 SUPREME-COURT
GETZ PHARMA (PVT.) LIMITED, KARACHI VS MUHAMMAD NAFEES S. 15(1)--- Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S. 2(i) & Sched., S.O.12(6) & 12(7)---Sales Managers employed on contractual basis on manageri…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 43(2-a)---Judge of High Court azad Jammu and Kash…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR Every structure had to stand on its own foundation and…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR arts. 43(2-a) & 44(2)(b)(ii)---Writ of quo warranto---…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 44(2)(b)(ii)---Writ of quo warranto---Maintainabi…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 43(2-a)---Judge of High Court azad Jammu and Kash…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 44---Writ petition---Relief---Scope---High Court…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 43(2-a)---appointment of appellant as Judge and t…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 42-a---Issue and execution of processes of Suprem…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 44(2)(b)(ii)---Writ of quo warranto---Burden of p…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 43(2-a)---Judge of High Court azad Jammu and Kash…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 42-D---Supreme Court, azad Jammu and Kashmir---Re…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 43(2-a)---Judge of High Court azad Jammu and Kash…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 42-D---Supreme Court, azad Jammu and Kashmir - Re…
2021 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
M. TABASSUM AFTAB ALVI, CHIEF JUSTICE, HIGH COURT OF AJ&K, MUZAFFARABAD VS Raja WASEEM YOUNIS, ADVOCATE, EX-GENERAL SECRETARY, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, MIRPUR art. 2(1)---Judge of the High Court and Chief Justice…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Ss. 302, 337-H(2), 341 & 109---arms act (XX of 1965), S. 13---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rash and negligent act, wrongful restraint, abetment, possessing unlicensed weapon---appreciation of evidence---a…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Witness---Interested and related witnesses---Reliance---Scope---Related witnesses could not be disbelieved as interested witnesses unless and until it was proved that they had a motive to falsely implicate…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Ss. 302, 337-H(2), 341 & 109---arms act (XX of 1965), S. 13---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rash and negligent act, wrongful restraint, abetment, possessing unlicensed weapon---appreciation of evidence---R…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Witness---Number of witnesses---Scope---Prosecution had prerogative to examine the witnesses of its own choice---Prosecution could not be compelled to produce each and every witness cited in the calendar o…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Ss. 302, 337-H(2), 341 & 109---arms act (XX of 1965), S. 13---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rash and negligent act, wrongful restraint, abetment, possessing unlicensed weapon---appreciation of evidence---M…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Ss. 302, 337-H(2), 341 & 109---arms act (XX of 1965), S. 13---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rash and negligent act, wrongful restraint, abetment, possessing unlicensed weapon---appreciation of evidence---M…
2021 PCrLJN 45 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
IFTIKHAR KHAN alias KHARI VS State Ss. 302, 337-H(2), 341 & 109---arms act (XX of 1965), S. 13---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rash and negligent act, wrongful restraint, abetment, possessing unlicensed weapon---appreciation of evidence---D…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Evidence--- Direct evidence---Scope---Evidence coming from independent and natural source and the natural witness was one who was not inimical toward the accused to falsely implicate him in the commission of offence…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Ss. 302, 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in--- Motive not proved---Scope-…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Ss. 302, 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Sentenc…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Corroboration--- Rule of independent corroboration--- Scope--- Rule of independent corroboration was not an absolute mandatory rule to be applied in each and every case, rather it was a rule of abundant caution whic…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Ss. 302, 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Recovery of weapon and crim…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Ss. 302, 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Ocular account was not corr…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Ss. 302, 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Mitigating circumstances---…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State S. 161---Delay in recording the statements of witnesses by the police---Scope---Statements of the witnesses under S.161, Cr.P.C. had been recorded after a lapse of a considerable time---No explanation had been furni…
2021 YLRN 48 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD IDREES VS State Witness---Related and interested witnesses---Reliance---Scope---Mere on the ground of relationship the testimony of the witnesses could not be discarded---If some ill-will or animosity of the witnesses on the record…
2021 PLC(CS)N 3 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
The CHANCELLOR, MIRPUR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY/PRESIDENT AZAD GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR VS Dr. IQRAR AHMED KHAN S.11---Vice-Chancellor, appointment of---Search Committee recommended five candidates for consid…
2021 PLC(CS)N 5 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
Syed NAZAKAT HUSSAIN SHAH VS ZEESHAN AZAM Public Service Commission---appointment of assistant Sub-Inspector against the quota of refugees settled in Pakistan---Respondent was appointed as assistant Sub-Inspector against the quota of refuge…
2021 PLC(CS)N 10 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
TAIMOOR KHALID VS MUHAMMAD AZEEM art.44---Writ petition---Laches, doctrine of---applicability---Doctrine of laches is attracted where the party invoking writ jurisdiction by his conduct has waived his right or on account of his negligence t…
2021 PLC(CS)N 10 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
TAIMOOR KHALID VS MUHAMMAD AZEEM Laches, doctrine of---Applicability---Scope---Appointment of Assistant Professor---Petitioner qualified written test but he was not allowed to appear in the interview due to lack of requisite teaching experi…
2021 PLC(CS)N 15 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
RIAZ AHMED VS ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, MUZAFFARABAD If two possible interpretations are available, one favouring the state-subjects is to be adopted.
2021 PLC(CS)N 15 SUPREME-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
RIAZ AHMED VS ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR, MUZAFFARABAD Conflict between two provisions dealing with the same subject---Later provision, which directly relates to the matter, overrides the earlier.
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