Latest Judgments

Newly reported judgments from the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the High Courts and tribunals, added as they are processed — free, full text, updated daily. Judgments marked NEW were added in the most recent update. 79,348 judgments in total from the Lahore High Court.

• United Commercial Finance Ltd. vs Government of Pakistan1982 PLD Lahore 810 · Lahore High Court · 1982-08-04Read full judgment →
• United Bank Ltd., Lahore vs Government of the Punjab and 2 Other1982 PLD Lahore 384 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-12Read full judgment →
• Yaqeen Shah vs The State1982 P Cr.L J 718 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-13Read full judgment →
• Umar Ha Yat vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 1251 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-21Read full judgment →
• Umar Din and Another vs Member, Board of Revenue and 6 Other1982 CLC 1668 · Lahore High Court · 1982-06-08Read full judgment →
• Umaid Ali Shah vs Settlement Commissioner, Sargodha and Others1982 CLC 1858 · Lahore High Court · 1980-05-09Read full judgment →
• Umaid Ali Shah vs Settlement Commissioner, Sargodha and Other1982 CLC 1858 · Lahore High Court · 1980-05-09Read full judgment →
• Turaj Ahmad Khan vs D. I. G., Police, Multan1982 PLD Lahore 464 · Lahore High Court · 1980-09-15Read full judgment →
• The State vs Sh. Mumtaz Ahmad and 2 OTHERSs1982 P Cr. L J 1284 · Lahore High Court · 1982-06-29Read full judgment →
• The State vs Ahmad Din and Others1982 P Cr. L J 1173 · Lahore High Court · 1979-10-13Read full judgment →
• The Registrar, Joint Stock Companies, West Pakistan vs The Behtrin1982 PLD Lahore 236 · Lahore High Court · 1981-11-11Read full judgment →
• The Government of Punjab through Collector, Gujranwala District1982 PLD Lahore 115 · Lahore High Court · 1981-07-04Read full judgment →
• Tariq Saeed Saigol vs District Excise and Taxation Officer, Rawalpindi1982 CLC 2387 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-21
  education cessemployer liabilitycorporate personalityrecovery as arrears of land revenueChief ExecutiveWorkers' Children Education Ordinancewrit petition
  Summary & questions settled

  This writ petition challenges the order of the District Excise and Taxation Officer seeking to recover unpaid education cess levied under the Workers' Children (Education) Ordinance, 1972, from the Chief Executive of a company as arrears of land revenue, including through his arrest and the attachment of his personal properties. The core legal question is whether an education cess due from a corporate entity can be recovered personally from its Chief Executive or directors, and whether a Chief Executive qualifies as an 'employer' under the Ordinance whose personal assets can be subjected to coercive recovery measures. The Lahore High Court held that while the Chief Executive may fall within the definition of an 'employer' having ultimate control over the establishment, a company is a distinct juristic person separate from its directors and shareholders. Therefore, in the absence of an express statutory provision for vicarious or personal liability, the liabilities of the company cannot be recovered from the personal property or liberty of the Chief Executive or directors, though recovery may be pursued against the company's assets in their hands. The court declared the impugned recovery order illegal and without lawful authority.

  Questions settled

  • Whether the Chief Executive of a company can be categorized as an employer under section 2(a) of the Workers' Children (Education) Ordinance, 1972?
  • Can the education cess due from a corporate company be recovered from the personal property or by the arrest of its Chief Executive or directors?
  • Does section 3 of the Workers' Children (Education) Ordinance, 1972, create a personal liability or charge against the directors or Chief Executive of a company?
  • Whether an alternative remedy of appeal bars a constitutional petition when the impugned order is passed without lawful authority and in excess of jurisdiction?
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• Tariq Masood, Advocate vs Supreme Court Enrolment Committee, Lahore High Court1982 PLD Lahore 6 · Lahore High Court · 1981-10-06
  Supreme Court enrolmentcertificate of fitnessadvocate enrolmentreasons for decisiondomestic forumintra-court appeal
  Summary & questions settled

  This Intra-Court Appeal arose from the dismissal of a constitutional petition filed against the decision of the Supreme Court Enrolment Committee of the Lahore High Court, which had deferred the appellant's application for a certificate of fitness to be enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court. The core legal question was whether the Enrolment Committee is required by law to provide reasons when refusing or deferring the grant of a fitness certificate to an advocate. The court dismissed the appeal, holding that the Enrolment Committee functions as a domestic body of professional elite vested with absolute discretion, and is not legally required to record or disclose reasons for refusing or deferring a fitness certificate. The court laid down the principle that requiring the disclosure of such reasons would be damaging to the advocate's professional reputation and standing, and that decisions of professional domestic forums regarding peer evaluation should be accepted with grace without the compulsion of recording reasons.

  Questions settled

  • Whether the Supreme Court Enrolment Committee of a High Court is bound to give reasons for refusing or deferring a certificate of fitness for enrolment as an Advocate of the Supreme Court?
  • Does the Enrolment Committee function as a domestic body of professional elite whose discretionary assessments are exempt from recording reasons?
  • Can a writ petition be maintained against the refusal or deferment of a fitness certificate by the Enrolment Committee in the absence of a statutory requirement to provide reasons?
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• Tariq Masood vs Supreme Court, Enrolment Committee, Lahore High1982 CLC 329 · Lahore High Court · 1981-04-05Read full judgment →
• Tariq Mahmood vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 686 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-01Read full judgment →
• Tariq Aziz Etc. vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 396 · Lahore High Court · 1980-06-12Read full judgment →
• Talib Hussain vs Muhammad Iqbal Khan and 8 Others1982 CLC 2107 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-14Read full judgment →
• Talib Hussain vs Muhammad Iqbal Khan and 8 Other1982 CLC 2107 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-14Read full judgment →
• Talib Hussain and 2 Others vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 635 · Lahore High Court · 1979-10-26Read full judgment →
• Taleh Mand vs District Collector, Sahiwal and Others1982 CLC 1377 · Lahore High Court · 1981-11-28Read full judgment →
• Taleh Mand vs District Collector, Sahiwal and Other1982 CLC 1377 · Lahore High Court · 1981-11-28Read full judgment →
• Tajuddin Haqiqat vs Muhammad Rafi and Another1982 CLC 343 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-27Read full judgment →
• Tajammal Hussain vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 835 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-29Read full judgment →
• Taj Woolen Mills Ltd. vs Muhammad Younas, Assistant of Office of Assistant.Registrar1982 PLD Lahore 664 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-04Read full judgment →
• Taj Din vs Muhammad Zafar and 4 Others1982 CLC 970 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-26Read full judgment →
• Taj Din vs Muhammad Zafar and 4 Other1982 CLC 970 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-26Read full judgment →
• Taj Din vs Me. Mahmooda Begum Etc.1982 PLD Lahore 126 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-14Read full judgment →
• Taj Din and 2 Other vs Ghulam Muhammad and Another1982 PLD Lahore 177 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-12Read full judgment →
• Taifoor Ahmad vs Muhammad Irshad Sipra and Other1982 CLC 314 · Lahore High Court · 1980-11-21Read full judgment →
• Tahir Hanif vs Member, Board of Revenue and Other.1982 CLC 1732 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-21Read full judgment →
• Tahir Hanif vs Member, Board of Revenue and Others1982 CLC 1732 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-21Read full judgment →
• Syed Shaukat Abbas vs Mst. Bushra Rani and Another1982 PLD Lahore 281 · Lahore High Court · 1981-10-23
  constitutional petitioninterlocutory ordersfamily courtrecovery of dowerclosure of evidencewrit jurisdictionmatrimonial disputes
  Summary & questions settled

  This constitutional petition challenged three interlocutory orders passed by a Family Court in a suit for recovery of dower, specifically regarding the refusal to frame an additional issue, the refusal to summon witnesses, and the closure of the petitioner's evidence. The core legal questions were whether a Family Court possesses the jurisdiction to close a party's evidence in the absence of an express statutory provision, and whether interlocutory orders passed by a Family Court can be challenged via constitutional jurisdiction. The Court held that the petition was incompetent, ruling that Family Courts possess the inherent power to close evidence when a party fails to produce it without sufficient cause, despite the absence of an express provision in the Punjab Family Courts Act, 1964. Furthermore, the Court established that interlocutory orders do not dispose of the entire dispute and are appealable under Section 14 of the Punjab Family Courts Act, 1964. Consequently, invoking constitutional jurisdiction to challenge such orders would frustrate the legislative intent of ensuring the expeditious disposal of matrimonial disputes.

  Questions settled

  • Does a Family Court have the jurisdiction to close the evidence of a party who fails to produce it without sufficient cause?
  • Are interlocutory orders passed by a Family Court during a suit for dower challengeable through a constitutional petition?
  • Can a party challenge interlocutory orders of a Family Court in an appeal against the final decree?
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• Syed Muhammad Naqvi vs The District Magistrate/Deputy1982 CLC 1017 · Lahore High Court · 1981-11-03Read full judgment →
• Syed Muhammad Murtaza vs Rehman and Others1982 CLC 1728 · Lahore High Court · 1978-11-14Read full judgment →
• Syed Muhammad Murtaza vs Rehman and Other1982 CLC 1728 · Lahore High Court · 1978-11-14Read full judgment →
• Syed Muhammad and Others vs Muhammad Amin and Others1982 CLC 2235 · Lahore High Court · 1980-12-16Read full judgment →
• Syed Muhammad and Others vs Muhammad Amin and Other1982 CLC 2235 · Lahore High Court · 1980-12-16Read full judgment →
• Syed Mahmood vs Pakistan Railways Board and Another1982 PLC (C. S.) 231 · Lahore High Court · 1981-04-26Read full judgment →
• Syed Mahboob Hussain Shah vs Messrs Commerce Bank Ltd.1982 CLC 20 · Lahore High Court · 1980-09-15Read full judgment →
• Syed Khadim Ali Shah and Others vs The Additional District Judge, Sheikhupura and Other1982 CLC 577 · Lahore High Court · 1978-04-26Read full judgment →
• Syed Dilshad Hussain vs Province of Punjab and Other1982 PLD Lahore 153 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-04Read full judgment →
• Syed Bahauddin and Others vs Dur Muhammad Shah and 2 Another1982 CLC 1480 · Lahore High Court · 1980-11-01Read full judgment →
• Syed Ahmed Saeed Kirmani vs Punjab Province and Other1982 CLC 590 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-13
  impleadmentnecessary partyproper partyOrder I Rule 10 CPCwrit petitionaggrieved partyinterventionmultiplicity of proceedings
  Summary & questions settled

  This case dealt with four applications for impleadment as respondents under Order I Rule 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 in a constitutional writ petition challenging the validity of a law. The applicants, including advocate associations and local body representatives, sought to be added as parties to oppose the writ petition. The petitioner opposed the applications on the grounds that the applicants were neither necessary nor proper parties. The High Court analyzed the legal standards governing impleadment, emphasizing the distinction between a 'necessary party' and a 'proper party'. Relying on Supreme Court precedent, the Court held that a party can only be impleaded if its presence is necessary for an effectual and complete adjudication, or if its specific legal interest would be directly affected. Persons merely having a general common interest or who might indirectly benefit from the law under challenge do not possess a right to intervene. The High Court accordingly dismissed all the applications for impleadment.

  Questions settled

  • What is the distinction between a necessary party and a proper party under Order I Rule 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908?
  • Does a person generally interested in common with others have a right to be impleaded as a respondent under Order I Rule 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908?
  • Does the standard for determining an 'aggrieved party' to maintain a writ petition automatically apply to govern the impleadment of a respondent under Order I Rule 10 of the Code of Civil Procedure 1908?
  • Can individuals who derive a general benefit from a statute be impleaded as necessary parties in a writ petition challenging the validity of that statute?
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• Superintendent Watch and Ward, Pakistan Railway vs Muhammad1982 PLC 1054 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-12Read full judgment →
• Sultan Muhammad Ahd 3 Other vs Nawab Khan and Another1982 PLD Lahore 568 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-23
  pre-emptiondoctrine of sinkerco-vendeesdivisible saletenant rightsindivisible sale
  Summary & questions settled

  This regular second appeal arose from a pre-emption suit where the disputed land was purchased by four co-vendees, three of whom were tenants of the land while the fourth was a stranger. The core legal question was whether the doctrine of sinker applied to defeat the pre-emptive rights of the tenant-purchasers due to their association with a stranger in a joint sale. The appellants contended that the sale was divisible because the land purchased by the stranger was separately demarcated in the sale deed. The Lahore High Court dismissed the appeal, holding that because the sale price was mentioned as a lump sum and there was no indication of how the stranger shared the price, the sale was indivisible. Consequently, the Court laid down the principle that where the individual share of the sale price paid by a co-vendee cannot be ascertained from the sale deed, the sale is indivisible, and the tenant-purchasers lose their preferential status by associating with a stranger under the doctrine of sinker.

  Questions settled

  • Does the doctrine of sinker apply to defeat the rights of tenant-purchasers who associate with a stranger in a joint land purchase?
  • Can a sale deed be considered divisible for pre-emption purposes if the land shares are specified but the sale price is paid in a lump sum without indicating individual contributions?
  • Whether the association of a stranger as a co-vendee in an indivisible sale deprives the tenant-purchasers of their preferential pre-emptive status?
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• Sultan Ali and Others vs E. A. C. O. and Others1982 CLC 2637 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-02Read full judgment →
• Sultan Ali and Others vs E. A. C. O. and Other1982 CLC 2637 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-02Read full judgment →
• Sulpman vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 575 · Lahore High Court · 1981-05-30Read full judgment →
• Suleman and Others vs Alif Din1982 CLC 1851 · Lahore High Court · 1979-12-02Read full judgment →
• Sule M an vs The S. H. O., P. S. Mitha Tiwana, District Sargodha and 21982 P Cr. L J 125 · Lahore High Court · 1981-10-12Read full judgment →
• Sufi Wassan Muhammad vs Punjab Province1982 CLC 1441 · Lahore High Court · 1981-03-02Read full judgment →
• Sub Divisional Canal Officer Etc. vs Fazal Ahmed Etc1982 CLC 59 · Lahore High Court · 1980-10-13Read full judgment →
• State vs Umar Draz and 4 OTHERSs1982 P Cr. L J 6 · Lahore High Court · 1980-07-12Read full judgment →
• State vs Saeed Butt1982 P Cr. L J 439 · Lahore High Court · 1981-02-09Read full judgment →
• State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan vs Sardar Ghulam Farid, Additional District & Sessions Judge, Sargodha and Others1982 CLC 1297 · Lahore High Court · 1982-02-10Read full judgment →
• State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan vs Sardar Ghulam Farid, Additional District & Sessions Judge, Sargodha and Other1982 CLC 1297 · Lahore High Court · 1982-02-10Read full judgment →
• Sohrab Butt vs Government of Punjab1982 PLD Lahore 42 · Lahore High Court · 1977-12-03Read full judgment →
• Sohni and 2 Others vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 642 · Lahore High Court · 1973-02-08Read full judgment →
• Sialkot Rural Development Cooperative Trusi Ltd vs Jehanian & Sons1982 CLC 1675 · Lahore High Court · 1980-05-25Read full judgment →
• Sialkot Rural Development Co-Operative Trust Ltd. vs Jehanian &1982 CLC 1675 · Lahore High Court · 1980-05-26Read full judgment →
• Shujaat Ali vs Muhammad Asghar and Other1982 PLD Lahore 106 · Lahore High Court · 1981-10-25Read full judgment →
• Shitab Khan vs Wali Muhammad1982 CLC 554 · Lahore High Court · 1981-11-01Read full judgment →
• Shin Muhammad vs Municipal Committee, Gojra and Another1982 CLC 847 · Lahore High Court · 1975-01-30Read full judgment →
• Sher Muhammad Alias Sheru vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 1303 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-06Read full judgment →
• Sheikh Safdar Rashid vs Additional District Judge, Gujranwala and Another1982 CLC 1774 · Lahore High Court · 1982-02-10Read full judgment →
• Sheikh Muhammad Bashir vs Atta Ullah1982 CLC 1577 · Lahore High Court · 1980-05-05Read full judgment →
• Sheikh Ghulam Rasool vs Mst. Farhat Begum1982 PLD Lahore 553 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-14Read full judgment →
• Sheikh Ghulam Ali & Sons vs Registrar, Co Operative Societies, Punjab, Lahore and Another1982 CLC 207 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-21Read full judgment →
• Sheikh Fazal Karim vs Settlement and Rehabilitation Commissioner, Sargodha and Others1982 CLC 1340 · Lahore High Court · 1978-02-02Read full judgment →
• Sheikh Fazal Karim vs Settlement and Rehabilitation Commissioner, Sargodha and Other1982 CLC 1340 · Lahore High Court · 1978-02-02Read full judgment →
• Shaukat vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 696 · Lahore High Court · 1978-01-23Read full judgment →
• Shaukat Iqbal vs Muhammad Ashraf and Others1982 CLC 824 · Lahore High Court · 1981-05-31Read full judgment →
• Shaukat Iqbal vs Muhammad Ashraf and Other1982 CLC 824 · Lahore High Court · 1981-05-31Read full judgment →
• Shaukat Hayat vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 48 · Lahore High Court · 1981-02-08Read full judgment →
• Sharif vs Maqsood1982 CLC 2061 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-01Read full judgment →
• Shamshad Ahmad and Another vs The State1982 PLD Lahore 321 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-08Read full judgment →
• Shahnaz Iqbal Adil and Another vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 1231 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-23Read full judgment →
• Shahid Nazir vs Tie University of the Punjab and Another1982 PLD Lahore 284 · Lahore High Court · 1981-12-06Read full judgment →
• Shahid Iqbal vs Government of Pakistan1982 PLC (C. S.) 153 · Lahore High Court · 1981-06-29Read full judgment →
• Shah Sawar (Represented by His4 Heirs) vs Nazar Hussain1982 PLD Lahore 339 · Lahore High Court · 1982-01-31Read full judgment →
• Shah Nawaz and 26 Others vs Rab Nawaz and 2 Other1982 CLC 160 · Lahore High Court · 1979-12-09Read full judgment →
• Shah Muhammad vs Feroz Din1982 CLC 949 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-22Read full judgment →
• Shagufta Bano vs Musarrat Hanif Etc.1982 CLC 1821 · Lahore High Court · 1981-07-06Read full judgment →
• Shagufta Bang vs Musarrat Hanif Etc.1982 CLC 1821 · Lahore High Court · 1981-07-06Read full judgment →
• Shafqat Elahi Etc. vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 1162 · Lahore High Court · 1981-08-29Read full judgment →
• Shafiq Ahmad and Others vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 623 · Lahore High Court · 1980-10-12Read full judgment →
• Shabbir vs Water and Power Development Authority1982 PLC (C. S.) 613 · Lahore High Court · 1981-08-07Read full judgment →
• Shabbir Ali and 2 Others vs The State1982 P Cr. L J 151 · Lahore High Court · 1982-03-30Read full judgment →
• Shabbir Ahmad vs Additional District Judge, Lahore and Others1982 CLC 2358 · Lahore High Court · 1981-07-07Read full judgment →
• Shabbir Ahmad vs Additional District Judge, Lahore and Other1982 CLC 2358 · Lahore High Court · 1981-07-07Read full judgment →
• Sh. Zulfikar Ali and Another vs S. H. O. Naulakha Police Station, Lahore1982 P Cr. L J 1302 · Lahore High Court · 1980-02-16Read full judgment →
• Sh. Sarfraz Ahmad vs Mst. Bilqees Begum and Others1982 CLC 2212 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-27Read full judgment →
• Sh. Sarfraz Ahmad vs Mst. Bilqees Begum and Other1982 CLC 2212 · Lahore High Court · 1981-09-27Read full judgment →
• Sh. Qamar Din vs Muhammad Din and Others1982 CLC 2491 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-28Read full judgment →
• Sh. Qamar Din vs Muhammad Din and Othbr1982C L C 2491 · Lahore High Court · 1982-05-28Read full judgment →
• Sh. Mumtaz Hussain and Others vs Board of Revenue, Punjab and Other1982 CLC 523 · Lahore High Court · 1980-12-19Read full judgment →
• Sh. Muhammad Yasin vs John Nicholas1982 CLC 1599 · Lahore High Court · 1980-05-11Read full judgment →
• Sh. Khurshid Akhtar vs Fedral Investigation Agency and Others1982 P Cr. L J 1190 · Lahore High Court · 1981-05-18Read full judgment →
• Sh. Ahmad Din and 78 Other vs Member (Colonies), Board of Revenue, Punjab and Another1982 PLD Lahore 562 · Lahore High Court · 1982-04-19Read full judgment →