Paper for Written Test for the Post of Civil Judges

HIGH COURT OF SINDH, KARACHI PAPER WRITTEN TEST FOR THE POST OF CIVIL JUDGES Dated 14.3.1998 TIME 2 ½ hours. Q.1 Write an essay of about 70 lines on one of the following subjects: (i) Justice must not only be done but seems to be done. (ii) How to curtail delay in disposal of civil suits. (iii) If I would have been a Judge. Q.2 Draft a memo of Plaint in a suit for "dissolution of Marriage" on ground of Khula. Q.3 Draft a bail application for the accused facing trial in an offence punishable u/s 420 PPC. Q.4 Define the following terms: (i) Set off (ii) Market Value (iii) Diyat (iv) Confession (v) English Mortgage Q.5 What is the scope and object of the following? (i) Nemo debet Esse Judex in Propria Causa (No one can be Judge in his own cause) (ii) Audi Alteram Partem (No one shall be condemned unheard) (iii) Actus Non Facit Reum, Nisi Mens Sit Rea (An act does not make a man guilty unless he be so in intention) (iv) Res Ipsa Loquitur (The thing speaks for itself)