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2022 CLC 409 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH, through Secretary Irrigation and Power Department, Government of Sindh, Karachi VS LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER/DEPUTY DISTRICT OFFICER (R&R), ROHRI S.18---Reference against award---Limited/special jurisdiction of Court---Sco…
2022 CLC 409 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH, through Secretary Irrigation and Power Department, Government of Sindh, Karachi VS LAND ACQUISITION OFFICER/DEPUTY DISTRICT OFFICER (R&R), ROHRI S.18---acquisition of land by the Government---award passed by Land acquisit…
2022 CLC 428 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
TARIQ WALI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH S.19---Co-operative Society---Elections---Voters' list---Inclusion of names---Election Officer, powers of---Cooperative society in question filed application alleging that Election Officer included non-member…
2022 CLC 442 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed ASGHAR ALI SHAH VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Local Government Department Government of Sindh at Karachi Gazette notification---Scope---Provisions of statute for publication of a notification in official Gazette are generally…
2022 CLC 442 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed ASGHAR ALI SHAH VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Local Government Department Government of Sindh at Karachi S.120(3)---Corruption and corrupt practices---Suspension---Petitioner was Chairman Municipal Committee who was suspended…
2022 CLC 489 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HASHIM VS Haji ABDUL GHAFOOR S.12(2)---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 27---Transfer of Property act (IV of 1882), S. 42---Suit for specific performance was dismissed for non-prosecution and was restored---Compromise decree was…
2022 CLC 509 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD MAQSOOD VS TAUHEED SULTAN O.XXI, Rr. 66, 68, 89, 90 & S.151---auction of property under administration of Court---Petitioner filed application on 11/01/2021 expressing offer to purchase property---Public notice was published on 16/…
2022 CLC 529 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AIR INDUS (PVT.) LTD. VS PAKISTAN CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY, through Director General, PCAA, Terminal-1, Jinnah International Air Port, Karachi art.199---Constitution petition---Factual controversy---Scope---Petitioner sought suspension of o…
2022 CLC 543 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mian TRUST VS LYARI EXPRESSWAY RESETTLEMENT PROJECT S.21---Karachi Building and Town Planning Regulations, 2002, Reg. 18-4.1---Amenity plot (park), conversion into residential one---Petitioner being charitable trust imparting education to u…
2022 CLC 543 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mian TRUST VS LYARI EXPRESSWAY RESETTLEMENT PROJECT S.21---Karachi Building and Town Planning Regulations, 2002---Amenity plot (park), conversion to residential one---Scope---If government officials want to change the nature of the amenity…
2022 PLD 165 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mir HASSAN KALHORO VS MUHAMMAD CHUTTAL alias IMRAN act of judge---Scope---Judicial officers are discharging sacred duty of imparting justice and to achieve this noble task assigned to them, they have to enforce the law only with an aim to s…
2022 PLD 165 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mir HASSAN KALHORO VS MUHAMMAD CHUTTAL alias IMRAN S. 77---Judicial act of Judge---Scope---No action of any sort lay against a judge for doing something in the exercise of his judicial powers within his jurisdiction except the same is done…
2022 PLD 165 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mir HASSAN KALHORO VS MUHAMMAD CHUTTAL alias IMRAN S. 197---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 77---Judicial Officers' Protection Act (XVIII of 1850), S. 1---Prosecution of Judges and public servants---Act of Judge when acting judicially---Non-li…
2022 CLC 556 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SHAHNAZ VS IQBAL HUSSAIN Ss.2(0),3, 11, 13 & 14---Public property---Encroachment---Anti-Encroachment Tribunal ordered the occupation of the petitioner to be removed and directed the concerned official to demolish/remove the illegal con…
2022 CLC 556 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SHAHNAZ VS IQBAL HUSSAIN Preamble---Scope---Sindh Public Property (Removal of Encroachment) Act, 2010 was created to deal with almost all the normal problems in vogue for the matters concerning encroachments including encroachment rela…
2022 CLC 556 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SHAHNAZ VS IQBAL HUSSAIN "Determination"---Word determination meant (i) a final decision by a Court/administrative agency; (ii) the ending/expiration of an estate for interest in the property or of a right, however, or authority.
2022 PLC 137 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KANESHIRO (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SAJJAD ALI S.34---Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance (VI of 1968), S.Os. 15 & 12---Redressal of individual grievances---Termination of employment---Punishments---Scope---Petitione…
2022 PLC 188 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AYAZ KHAN VS FEROZ 1888 MILLS LIMITED General and special damages---Distinction---General damages were initially quantified by the person making the claim, while the special damages were assessed by the Court---In majority of insta…
2022 PLC 188 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AYAZ KHAN VS FEROZ 1888 MILLS LIMITED arts.2a & 4---administration of justice---Right to appeal---Injunctions of Islam---Scope---appeal was a statutory right of every citizen---If one felt aggrieved of any decision/verdict/dictum,…
2022 PLC 188 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AYAZ KHAN VS FEROZ 1888 MILLS LIMITED Mental torture/agony---Assessment---Scope---Mental shock, agony and torture implies a state of mind which could be proved only by a positive assertion of one who experienced the same.
2022 PLC 188 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AYAZ KHAN VS FEROZ 1888 MILLS LIMITED S.5---Suit for compensation/damages---Abrupt termination from service---Mental torture, claim of---Plaintiff's application for claiming benefits/dues was allowed by the Commissioner Workmen Com…
2022 PLC 214 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHALID MANSOOR VS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION ISLAMABAD S.O.15---Termination from service---Scope---Petitioner assailed his termination from service---Appointment of petitioner was not based on fake documents rather his promoti…
2022 CLC 569 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mrs. SARA JALIL VS MUHAMMAD JAMIL BABER art. 185---Order refusing leave to appeal---Leave refusing order passed by Supreme Court was not law enunciated by Supreme Court and had no binding effect.
2022 CLC 569 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mrs. SARA JALIL VS MUHAMMAD JAMIL BABER S.42---Specific performance, seeking of---Requirements---Willingness, demonstration of---Scope---Specific performance was a discretionary relief---Courts were not bound to grant such relief mechanical…
2022 CLC 569 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mrs. SARA JALIL VS MUHAMMAD JAMIL BABER S.42---Suit for specific performance---Balance sale consideration, payment of---Injunctive order---Respondent filed suit for specific performance and permanent injunction against appellant---Appellant…
2022 CLC 585 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AUM MEDIA PUBLISHER, LLC VS MOHIB MIRZA Ss.12, 21, 42, 54 & 56---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXIX, Rr.1 & 2---Suit for specific performance of agreement, declaration and injunction---Interim injunction, setting aside of---Money as…
2022 CLC 616 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL HAKEEM VS Mst. ALLAH DINI arts. 62 & 63---Relationship---affirmative evidence---Scope---Pedigree table by itself could not prove the factum of relationship between the parties in absence of any affirmative evidence regarding claim of…
2022 CLC 616 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL HAKEEM VS Mst. ALLAH DINI arts. 62 & 63---Relationship, proof of---Inquiry---Pedigree table---Petitioner's suit for declaration and permanent injunction against orders of Revenue authorities was decreed by the Trial Court---appeal of…
2022 CLC 616 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL HAKEEM VS Mst. ALLAH DINI Inquiry report---Scope---Once a report was called by any functionary, then either the same had to be accepted, and if not, then the same could only be discarded with sound reasoning and not in a slipshod mann…
2022 CLC 640 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SHAH BANO VS The DIRECTOR GENERAL art.199---Constitutional petition---Factual controversy---Scope---Grievances of the petitioners related to different agreements/instruments executed between them and the builder/developer at the time o…
2022 CLC 653 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
TAYABA JAMA MASJID TRUST SAUDABAD, KARACHI VS Mst. AQEELA Begum Ss.15 & 16---Eviction petition---arrears of rent---Defence, striking off---Scope---Petitioner filed ejectment application under S. 15 of the Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance, 19…
2022 CLC 653 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
TAYABA JAMA MASJID TRUST SAUDABAD, KARACHI VS Mst. AQEELA Begum S.16---arrears of rent---Scope---Landlord in every case of eviction filed by him/her can make an application in terms of S. 16(1) irrespective of the grounds taken in the case-…
2022 CLC 653 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
TAYABA JAMA MASJID TRUST SAUDABAD, KARACHI VS Mst. AQEELA Begum S.16---arrears of rent---Scope---Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance, 1979, directs the Rent Controller that on receiving the application under S.16(1) of Sindh Rented Premises Ord…
2022 CLC 682 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Sheikh IMRAN AHMED VS The DIRECTOR GENERAL K.D.A. S.3---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art.144---Amenity plot---Petitioner claimed that he purchased the suit plot from respondent/Authority in 1982; that utility services were in his name; that…
2022 CLC 692 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHNAWAZ VS PROVINCE OF SINDH O.XLI, R. 31---Points for determination---Applicability---Scope---Provision of R.31 of O.XLI, Civil Procedure Code, 1908, was not mandatorily applicable in each case, it would depend on the facts of each case…
2022 CLC 692 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHNAWAZ VS PROVINCE OF SINDH O. XLI, R.31---appeal, points for determination of---Registered sale deed---Forest land---Title of alleged seller---Suit for declaration and permanent injunction was decreed which was set aside by the appellat…
2022 CLC 709 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SEEMA VS WAJID ALI S.5, Sched.---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 494---Suit for dissolution of marriage---Marrying again during lifetime of husband or wife---Bona fide conduct---Effect---Suit for khula filed by petitioner / wife was decre…
2022 CLC 709 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SEEMA VS WAJID ALI Law favours the rights over procedure.
2022 CLC 709 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SEEMA VS WAJID ALI S.5, Sched.---Suit for dissolution of marriage---Scope---Marriage is a legal contract through which both parties agree to live a harmonious life by honouring their respective obligations and duties towards each other…
2022 CLC 735 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PAKISTAN DEFENCE OFFICERS HOUSING AUTHORITY VS Mrs. UZMA MOINUDDIN art.17---Pakistan Defence Officers' Cooperative Housing Society Bye-Laws (1972)---allotment of plot---Respondent filed suit for declaration, injunction and compensation agai…
2022 PLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed REZA ALI SHAH VS XII MODEL CIVIL APPELLATE COURT,DISTRICT SOUTH, KARACHI Ss. 25 & 9---Family Courts Act (XXXV of 1964), S. 5, Sched.---Family Courts Rules, 1965, R. 6---Custody of minor---Territorial jurisdiction---Residing together---…
2022 PLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed REZA ALI SHAH VS XII MODEL CIVIL APPELLATE COURT,DISTRICT SOUTH, KARACHI Merely mistakenly mentioning wrong provision of law in the application is to be ignored and the contents of such application are to be taken into consideration.
2022 PLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed REZA ALI SHAH VS XII MODEL CIVIL APPELLATE COURT,DISTRICT SOUTH, KARACHI S. 5---Citizenship by descent---Scope---all children, by virtue of S. 5 of the Pakistan Citizenship act, 1951, wherever born of a Pakistani father, are deemed to…
2022 PLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed REZA ALI SHAH VS XII MODEL CIVIL APPELLATE COURT,DISTRICT SOUTH, KARACHI S. 5, Sched.---Family Courts Rules, 1965, R. 6---Custody of minor---Territorial jurisdiction---Scope---Territorial jurisdiction in the matters regarding guardians…
2022 PLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed REZA ALI SHAH VS XII MODEL CIVIL APPELLATE COURT,DISTRICT SOUTH, KARACHI Incumbent upon the court that before proceeding on merits with any legal proceedings, it be a suit, appeal, petition or application, to first see and decide as to…
2022 PLD 171 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed REZA ALI SHAH VS XII MODEL CIVIL APPELLATE COURT,DISTRICT SOUTH, KARACHI R. 6---Territorial jurisdiction---Scope---Rule 6 of the Family Courts Rules, 1965, provides two grounds for determination of territorial jurisdiction and by conjo…
2022 CLC 862 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Capt. TARIQ MEHMOOD MALIK VS PALPA PILOTS OCCUPATIONAL DISABILITY, FUND TRUST Ss.42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VII, R.11---Suit for declaration, injunction and recovery of money---Maintainability---Plaintiff was declared unf…
2022 CLC 880 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MARIE STOPES SOCIETY VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art.114---Estoppel---Scope---Held, though acquiescence is a specie of estoppel but there can be no estoppel against law.
2022 CLC 880 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MARIE STOPES SOCIETY VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S.24---Policy for Regulation of Organization Receiving Foreign Contributions---Non-speaking order---Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), non-signing of---Petitioner society was aggrieved of non-s…
2022 CLC 920 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUNAWAR ALI VS UMAR DARAZ Formalities/technicalities of law---Nature---Purpose behind legal/codal formalities and procedure was nothing but only to ensure the safe administration of justice and avoid/thwart the chances of injustice/miscarri…
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