Civil Law
Civil rights, remedies, execution, and procedure.
Legal research on civil procedure, execution, arbitration, contractual disputes, and the lawful limits of judicial and administrative remedies.
16 articles in Civil Law
01Civil Law · Constitutional Law · Legal CommentaryNasira Begum Case: Deeming Clause Automatically Regularized Contract EmployeesThe Supreme Court held that Section 11's amended deeming clause changed qualifying PICO employees' status by operation of law; administrative delay could not defeat it.02Civil Law · Constitutional Law · Legal Commentary · Legal NewsRemanded Cases Cannot Wait Without a Stay: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court held that remanded cases must proceed unless expressly stayed and ordered an eight-year-old civil suit concluded within two months.03Civil Law · Constitutional Law · Legal CommentaryNajma Parveen Case: Contract Service Counts for Pension, Not SeniorityThe Supreme Court held that uninterrupted contract service followed by regularization counts for pension, but not seniority, backdated status or increments.04Civil Law · Evidence · Legal CommentaryEllahi Bakhsh Bugti v. Government of Balochistan: Forensic Proof in Departmental InquiriesThe Supreme Court set aside a Service Tribunal judgment because disciplinary guilt rested on unresolved and contradictory evidence, and ordered a three-month de novo inquiry with forensic examination.05Civil Law · Legal CommentaryPTCL v. Abdul Ghafoor: Temporary Labels Do Not Decide Worker StatusIn C.P.L.A. No. 4444 of 2023, the Federal Constitutional Court held that a workman’s legal status turns on the real nature, continuity and duration of the work, not an employer’s temporary label. A continuing denial of permanent-workman benefits can remain a recurring wrong during employment.06Constitutional Law · Civil Law · Legal CommentaryProvince of Sindh v. Zulfiqar Khushk: PMS Rules 2018, Service Tribunal Jurisdiction and Executive PolicyThe Federal Constitutional Court upheld the Sindh Civil Servants (Provincial Management Service) Rules, 2018. It held that the constitutional petition was maintainable to test the Rules' validity, but the Rules neither exceeded the parent statute nor caused an unlawful cadre merger or discrimination.07Constitutional Law · Civil Law · Legal CommentaryBoard of Revenue, KP v. Habib-ur-Rehman: Sub-Registrar Appointments, Article 199 and Statutory RulesThe Federal Constitutional Court held that executive authorities cannot bypass binding service rules through additional-charge appointments, and that Article 212 did not bar a writ enforcing those rules.08Constitutional Law · Civil Law · Legal CommentaryOGDCL v. Dr. Capt. (R) Nusrat Hussain: Section 9A Benefits, Corporate Succession and LachesBy a 2–1 majority, the Federal Constitutional Court set aside an order granting Section 9A benefits because the claim did not fit the statutory framework and had become stale in Article 199 jurisdiction.09Constitutional Law · Civil Law · Legal CommentaryMuhammad Akram v. National Bank of Pakistan: Pension Rights, Finality and Time-Barred ReviewThe Federal Constitutional Court held that pension benefits are vested and enforceable, rejected an attempt to bypass limitation through Article 199, and restored finality to a 2008 reinstatement order.10Civil Law · Legal CommentaryChild Maintenance Increase in Pakistan: Simple or Compound?In 2026 SCP 167, Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled that an annual maintenance increase is simple unless the decree expressly requires compounding.11Constitutional Law · Criminal Law · Civil Law · Evidence · Legal CommentarySher Azam v. State: Supreme Court Rejects Chamber Review Without HearingThe Supreme Court held that dismissing a review in chambers without hearing violated Articles 4 and 10-A, with implications for criminal and civil review cases.12Civil Law · Evidence · Constitutional Law · Legal CommentaryWomen's Inheritance in Pakistan: Supreme Court 2026In 2026 SCP 211, the Supreme Court held that an alleged oral gift and mutation cannot defeat women's inheritance without strict, independent proof.13Civil Law · Constitutional Law · Legal CommentaryMinor's Property Compromise Requires Court Leave: FCCP 2026The FCCP held that a compromise affecting minors' property cannot stand without a lawful guardian, express court leave, and protection of the minors' best interests.14Constitutional Law · Civil Law · Legal CommentaryMonal Restaurant Judgment 2026: FCCP Reopens Lease DisputeThe FCCP set aside key parts of the Monal Restaurant judgment, restored civil trials over lease and rent, and clarified CDA and wildlife-board authority.15Constitutional Law · Civil Law · Legal CommentaryNai Gaj Dam Judgment: Article 199 Cannot Rewrite an Arbitral AwardPakistan's Federal Constitutional Court set aside Sindh High Court orders altering the Nai Gaj Dam contract and preserved arbitral finality under Article 199.16Civil Law · Legal CommentaryCan an Executing Court Block a CNIC for a Money Decree? Supreme Court Limits Section 51(e) CPCIn Agha Abid Majeed Khan v. Idrees Ahmed, the Supreme Court held that an executing court in Sindh cannot use the general power under Section 51(e) CPC to block a judgment debtor's CNIC for enforcement of a money decree. The Court treated the CNIC as essential to ordinary life and distinguished the express rule applicable in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.