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ECP Ought to Act Within the Confines of Law: SC

Supreme Court has given an important judgment on the powers of Election Commission of Pakistan in connection with conducting elections. The judgment primarily expounds that whether the ECP has power...

Question of Jurisdiction Shall be Attended First: SC

The Supreme Court, while hearing CIVIL PETITIONS NO.2270 & 2272 OF 2023, commented on a few very important questions. The Court held that question of jurisdiction shall be dispensed with first...

SC Upholds the Legality of Pakistan’s Citizen Portal.

Supreme Court Upholds the Legality of Pakistan’s Citizen Portal: Hearing a petition for leave to appeal against a judgment of the Peshawar High Court, wherein the PHC had declared the functioning and...

Short Order and Note of the SC in NAB Amendment Case

A Larger Bench of three judges of the Supreme Court is currently hearing the NAB Amendment case. One of the Judges, Mr. Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, has raised questions over the constitution of the bench...

The Supreme Court Fins a Counsel 10000 PKR in a Case for Misleading the Court.

In deciding a review petition, the Supreme Court observed that the Court had been misled by the counsel of the petitioner and thus fined him in the sum of 10000 PKR. The counsel submitted before the...

A One-Year Delay in Conclusion of a Trial can be a Fresh Ground for the Second Bail Application. SC

A significant development in the jurisprudence of bail: The Supreme Court  clarified in case, Crl.P.588-L/2023, that no matter if an earlier bail application on the ground of delay in the conclusion...

Recording of Additional Evidence Needs Exceptional and Special Circumstances/Grounds: SC

The Supreme Court has given a judgment in case,   C.P No. 1692-L of 2022, wherein the Court has delved into Order XLI Rule 27 of the Code of Civil Procedure and has held that remanding a matter for...

SC Declares the SC (Review of Judgements and Orders) Act, 2023 Ultra Vires the Constitution:

The larger bench of the Supreme Court has declared The Supreme Court (Review of Judgements and Orders) Act, 2023, as ultra vires the Constitution as a whole and of no legal effect.  Click to Download ...

An Independent Advice Must be Given to Pardanashin or Illiterate Woman Before A Transection: SC

How a transection can be made with an Illiterate or Pardanashin woman and what are the necessary steps to be taken before entering into contract with Pardanashin woman or her attorney? The Supreme...

Things Shall be Done as The Procedure Requires Within The Stipulated Time: SC

Usually, the procedure provided in a statute which requires to do a specific act in a specific manner is taken as just a formality and it is done in a very careless and delinquent manner. This happens...

Only Question Of Law not Fact Can be Resolved in Second Appeal U/S 100 of CPCP: SC

Second Appeal is not usually available to the parties, but there is a special provision, section 100, in CPC which provides for second appeal. The Supreme Court has recently rendered a judgment in...

Limitation Runs In CPLAs in Criminal Cases too. Says SC

The Supreme Court larger bench, comprising three Honorable Judges, while deciding leave to appeal in a pre arrest bail matter in Crl.P.497-L/2023, has recently ruled that limitation under Rule 2 of...
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