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Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 9, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 397-K and 399-K to 402-K of 2026
Whether rent default and material impairment were established, when later default could be considered during ejectment proceedings, whether expert evidence was invariably required and whether concurrent findings warranted interference.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 7, 2026
Jail Petition No. 326 of 2022 and Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 1165 of 2022
Whether the digital and other evidence established the individual involvement and knowledge of each petitioner in the online publication forming the section 295-C prosecution.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 5, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 1748 of 2023 with C.A. No. 298 of 2023
Could the trial court proceed ex parte after remand without ensuring due service when the defendants’ former lawyer expressly had no instructions?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 2, 2026
Jail Petition No. 565 of 2022
Can Article 122 QSO sustain a husband’s murder conviction merely because his wife died in a shared house and he gave no plausible explanation, when the prosecution evidence is unreliable?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 2, 2026
Civil Petition No. 428 of 2025
Can medical restrictions and a settled training objection defeat consideration for proforma promotion after retirement?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 30, 2026
Civil Miscellaneous Appeal No. 37 of 2026
Was OGDCL’s application to recall and restore a review dismissed as infructuous a genuine procedural recall or a barred subsequent review?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 29, 2026
CPLA No. 249-L of 2025
The Supreme Court upheld relief for Punjab traffic personnel permanently absorbed into their cadre, rejecting their return to the General District Police Cadre.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 29, 2026
Civil Miscellaneous Appeal No. 36/2026 (first page and FCC cause list; later page headers say 34/2026)
Could retired Punjab employees bring a dispute over an asserted increase for service beyond thirty years directly to the FCC under Article 175E(3), despite the service law remedies?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 29, 2026
Civil Miscellaneous Appeal No. 34 of 2026
Can a litigant pursue an original FCC petition concerning Punjab Healthcare Commission action while a statutory appeal and an Article 199 petition are already pending?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 25, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 1285-K of 2023
Whether the remaining twenty-five percent of a trade union executive under the proviso to Section 8(1)(d) of the Industrial Relations Act, 2012 must still consist of workmen, or may include persons who are not workmen.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 24, 2026
Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 100-K of 2026
Did the collected digital and documentary material, co-accused bail and non-prohibitory charges justify post-arrest bail in the FIA visa-document case?
Lahore High Court · September 24, 2026
W.P. No. 2928 of 2026 with eighteen connected petitions
Whether AMLA proceedings founded on scheduled offences under the Income Tax Ordinance may be initiated or continued without a prior final determination of the corresponding tax liability.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 24, 2026
Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 1449 of 2026
Whether non-production by jail authorities could be attributed to the accused so as to defeat statutory-delay bail, and whether mere involvement in other cases brought him within the fourth-proviso exception.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 24, 2026
Criminal Petitions No. 1381 and 1395 of 2018
Whether a murder conviction could be sustained on testimony of the deceased's brothers where they were natural witnesses, the FIR was prompt and medical, ballistic and circumstantial evidence corroborated them; whether a belated accidental-firing defence was credible; and whether the sentence should be reduced or enhanced.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 24, 2026
Criminal Petitions No. 356-L and 417-L of 2016
Whether the murder convictions could be sustained on the account of chance witnesses whose presence was unsupported, where the firing narrative appeared unnatural, physical recoveries did not fit the alleged indiscriminate firing, recovered weapons were not forensically compared, and medical evidence did not identify the assailants.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 24, 2026
Jail Petition No. 501 of 2020 and Criminal Petition No. 1488-L of 2020
Whether Umar Hayat's murder conviction could be maintained on a materially contradictory eyewitness account where co-accused had received benefit of doubt on the same type of defects and no weapon, motive or independent corroboration reliably distinguished his case.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 23, 2026
CPLA No. 1683 of 2025; CMA No. 2604 of 2025
The Supreme Court held that a transfer note could not defeat EST Physical Education promotion to AEO under the 2014 Rules and restored promotion with back benefits.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 23, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 538-P of 2023
Does a registered doctor's dispensing exception remove the need for a drug-sale licence, and was a writ maintainable before disputed facts were considered on show-cause notices?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 22, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4959/2025 (converted into appeal)
Is a 20% annual maintenance increase compounded when the final decree prescribes the rate but does not specify the method, and does section 17A(3) cap it at 10%?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 22, 2026
Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 1448 of 2026
Whether pre-arrest bail should be confirmed where cheques allegedly issued for Rs5,847,000 were claimed to be security for ongoing business and the investigating officer found an actual liability of only Rs1,700,000.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 22, 2026
C.P.L.A. Nos. 372-P and 373-P of 2019 with connected petitions and appeals
How must courts characterize Muslim marriage and dower, interpret a Nikahnama and its Columns 13 to 16, and enforce immovable property stipulated as mahr when that property cannot ultimately be transferred to the wife?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 21, 2026
C.P.L.A. Nos. 800 and 1581 of 2023; Criminal Appeal No. 383 of 2023
Whether success in a computerized public-housing draw creates a vested right for applicants who do not meet the published eligibility criteria, and whether fresh cancellation after a hearing disobeyed the earlier High Court judgment.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 21, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 187-P of 2026
Whether a 78-year-old accused was entitled to post-arrest bail where the alleged firing role was joint and unspecified, no weapon was recovered, the empties reportedly came from one pistol, and serious illnesses were rejected without determining the treatment available in custody.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 18, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 51-L of 2025
Whether a mutation merely tendered by counsel could establish ownership and whether a purchaser during pending litigation could avoid lis pendens by claiming good faith and absence of notice.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 17, 2026
Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 2413-L of 2025
Whether the petitioners could again argue that specific performance was the respondent's only remedy when the Supreme Court had rejected the same objection between the same parties in the same dispute in 1989.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 17, 2026
Jail Petition No. 356 of 2023
Whether a deputy jail superintendent who released under-trial prisoners on apparently genuine but forged judicial orders incurred criminal liability where knowledge of forgery, dishonest intention and conscious participation were not proved, and whether sections 76 and 79 PPC could apply without a formal plea.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 17, 2026
Criminal Petitions for Leave to Appeal Nos. 1200 and 1208 of 2026
Whether an under-trial prisoner should receive post-arrest bail where official jail reports show serious uncontrolled hypertension and cardiac disease requiring specialized treatment and monitoring that cannot be fully provided in jail.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 17, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 915 of 2020
Whether the respondent-pre-emptor proved Talb-e-Muwathibat and Talb-e-Ishhad in accordance with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pre-emption Act, 1987, despite an unexplained interval of more than eight weeks and disputed service of the registered notice.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · Decision date pending source verification
C.P.L.A. Nos. 2555 and 2556 of 2022
Whether a wife could retain a plot forming part of her dower under an earlier decree after a later final dissolution decision held that cruelty was not proved and that dower had to be restored.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
FCPLA No. 1275 of 2026
Did appointment to a regular vacancy entitle a probationer to reinstatement after termination for unsatisfactory performance, and when does a probation discharge require notice and due process?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
C.P.L.A. Nos. 2501 and 500-P of 2024
Whether disciplinary proceedings survived when punishment rested on allegations materially broader than the charge-sheets and witnesses were not offered for cross-examination, and whether reinstatement carried back benefits.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
CPLA Nos. 1011 and 1113 of 2025
Whether the allegations fell within the workplace-harassment definition applicable to the 2012-2013 dispute and whether the Islamabad High Court could displace the President's section 9 decision through certiorari.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 1157 of 2021
Whether a DNA comparison conducted through collateral relatives conclusively determined parentage and whether the High Court could compare the evidence where the trial and appellate courts had recorded divergent findings.
Lahore High Court · September 16, 2026
Writ Petition No. 6742 of 2024
Whether Section 14 barred the husband's entire appeal after a decree of Khula, including his challenge concerning the wife's liability to return dower and a four-marla house allegedly received as a marriage benefit.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
Civil Petition No. 2732 of 2023
Whether the Punjab Service Tribunal could retain a reduced service penalty after finding that connivance, motive and departmental loss were not proved and that the decisive sample re-analysis was conducted beyond the prescribed period without associating the employee or giving him a fair opportunity to rebut it.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
Civil Appeals Nos. 854-862/2011, 1666-1667/2013, 48-50/2014, 788-789/2015, 938-940/2017 and Civil Appeal No. 484/2018
Whether genuine share sale and repurchase transactions of insurance companies could be re-characterised as a tax avoidance scheme under section 109 merely because they produced exempt capital gains, when their accepted main purpose was to capture increased market value in the accounts.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 16, 2026
Jail Petition No. 384 of 2023
Whether a police-caused delay of more than three days in registering a murder FIR undermined an otherwise proved prosecution, and what legal consequences may follow deliberate police delay in registering a cognizable offence.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · September 15, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 52, 509 and 3445 of 2022 and twenty connected petitions
Whether later Office Memorandums modifying or withdrawing time-scale criteria could operate retrospectively against employees who claimed to have completed the qualifying service under earlier policies.
Islamabad High Court · September 14, 2026
Writ Petition No. 1523 of 2026
Whether Rule 22(2)(b) authorised PCL placement merely on an agency recommendation and whether its second limb was consistent with the Passports Act and the Constitution.
Lahore High Court · September 11, 2026
Criminal Appeal No. 234815 of 2018
Whether loss of an official court file and a departmental finding of negligence were sufficient to prove criminal breach of trust and criminal misconduct without admissible evidence of dishonest or fraudulent misappropriation.
Lahore High Court · September 11, 2026
W.P. No. 6627 of 2023
Whether the Family Court at Jahanian lacked territorial jurisdiction because the wife mentioned an address in Tehsil Mailsi, despite evidence that she ordinarily resided with her father within the Jahanian forum.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · September 10, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4687 of 2025
Whether employees governed by non-statutory service policy could maintain an Article 199 petition, and whether the High Court could decide the merits after holding the petition not maintainable.
Lahore High Court · September 10, 2026
Criminal Appeal No. 40490-J of 2023; Murder Reference No. 111 of 2023
Whether a murder conviction and death sentence could be sustained where the eyewitness account was unreliable and the alleged physical, DNA and CCTV evidence was not connected to the appellant through legally proved recovery, authentication and chain of custody.
Islamabad High Court · September 10, 2026
W.P. No. 5143 of 2025
Whether a Nikahnama recording dower of Rs250,150 in the form of gold ornaments, without stating any weight, entitled the husband after Khula to recover seven tolas of gold or their prevailing market value.
Lahore High Court · September 8, 2026
Civil Revision No. 09 of 2023
Whether the Executing Court could confirm an open auction of jointly owned property without a reasoned reserve price, proof that the internal auction had lawfully failed, an approved and published auction plan, and findings on timely deposit of the purchase price.
Lahore High Court · September 3, 2026
Writ Petition No. 17945 of 2025
Whether back benefits could lawfully be denied after reinstatement merely because the employee performed no work, despite findings that his absence was beyond his control, no misconduct survived, and no material showed gainful employment elsewhere.
Islamabad High Court · September 1, 2026
W.P. No. 2664 of 2026 (styled W.P. 2664-2026 in the order)
Whether the prolonged non-recovery of the petitioner's missing minor daughter required a coordinated multi-agency investigation under the supervision of a Joint Investigation Team.
Lahore High Court · September 1, 2026
Writ Petition No. 33829 of 2026
Whether minutes of a public body's meetings remain excluded under section 7(b) after the relevant final decision has been taken, and whether privacy or deliberative-process exemptions justify withholding the complete record.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 28, 2026
Jail Petition No. 452 of 2022 and Criminal Petition No. 1625-L of 2022
Whether the eyewitness account assigning the fatal shot to Nazim Ali remained reliable enough to sustain his murder conviction despite unexplained chance witnesses, weapon and forensic inconsistencies, site-plan defects and failure to prove motive.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 25, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 22-Q of 2023
Whether Jamshair's alleged presence with a weapon and act of restraining eyewitnesses proved that he shared the common intention to murder the deceased so as to attract liability under section 34 PPC.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 24, 2026
C.M.A. No. 1477 of 2023 in Civil Petition No. 5250 of 2023
Whether the Sindh High Court was justified in directing Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal to support two minor children, and what course courts should adopt in future cases where a person appears deserving of Bait-ul-Mal assistance.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · August 21, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 810 of 2026
Whether Section 12A authorizes a Special Court to entertain an ordinary civil suit validly transferred by the High Court even though the dispute falls outside the Special Court's parent statute.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · August 20, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 392-L of 2025
Whether the Lahore High Court could exercise Article 199 jurisdiction over the legality of the departmental refusal and whether an employee who performed the duties of Project Director and later received Selection Board approval could be denied incentive allowance merely because the Board met after his transfer.
Lahore High Court · August 20, 2026
Criminal Miscellaneous No. 5377-B of 2026
Whether an HTV-licensed bus driver who lacked the required PSV entitlement was prima facie driving unlawfully for sections 321 and 322 PPC, and whether the later nomination or diyat-only punishment justified post-arrest bail.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · August 20, 2026
C.A. Nos. 192-P and 193-P of 2010, 124-P of 2013, 409 and 499 of 2014 and 1296 of 2016; C.P.L.A. Nos. 1565 of 2019, 261-P of 2014, 2316 to 2318 of 2016 and 1541 of 2018; C.R.P. Nos. 95 and 96 of 2010
Whether a landowner who accepted the Collector's award, failed to seek a timely Section 18 reference, or did not pursue later remedies may claim enhanced compensation awarded to another owner through Article 199, execution, parity, Article 187, Order XLI Rule 33 CPC, or other collateral proceedings.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · August 19, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 172-L of 2026
Whether children of a brother who predeceased the propositus can claim their father's hypothetical inheritance by representation under Section 4 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961, and whether their delayed application to reopen the concluded proceedings was maintainable.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · August 19, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 1836-L of 2019
Whether HEC's equivalence certificate required the University of the Punjab to admit the petitioner to its M.Phil programme despite his qualifying MBA carrying fewer credit hours than the University's independently prescribed admission criterion.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 18, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 1693 of 2021
Does remand for fresh sales-tax adjudication remove the statutory deadline, preserve an original-notice clock, or begin a fresh statutory period?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 18, 2026
Civil Petition No. 4459 of 2023
Whether a motor car originally designed and manufactured as a five-seater enters PCT Heading 87.02 merely because a later private structural modification increases its capacity to ten or more persons, or whether original design controls its classification under Heading 87.03.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 17, 2026
CPLA No. 57 of 2025 and CPLA No. 1350 of 2025
A five-judge Supreme Court Bench sustained dissolution for shiqaq, rejected khula without the wives’ voluntary election and removed dower-surrender orders based solely on khula.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 17, 2026
Civil Petition No. 327-P of 2020
The Supreme Court ordered outright confiscation of a vehicle used exclusively for smuggled goods, holding that SRO 499 barred its release on redemption fine.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 17, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 1385 and Jail Petition No. 620 of 2023
Whether the prosecution proved conscious possession of the separately alleged narcotics recoveries against the driver and both passengers beyond reasonable doubt, and whether the driver's life sentence remained appropriate on the facts proved against him.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 17, 2026
Civil Appeals Nos. 1309 to 1312 of 2019
Whether DHA Islamabad qualified as a local authority under section 49(2) of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001, and thus could claim the income tax exemption for Tax Years 2005 to 2008.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 17, 2026
Civil Petition No. 3837 of 2023
Whether carrying undeclared US$40,000 through immigration to the final ASF checking counter, without the required State Bank NOC, amounted to an attempt to smuggle under section 2(s) of the Customs Act, 1969.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 12, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 569-L of 2026
Whether witnesses not named in the FIR or original witness list, and without a prior Section 161 statement, may be summoned under Section 540 Cr.P.C. during trial, and whether doing so automatically requires a de novo trial.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 11, 2026
Jail Petition No. 73 of 2020 and Criminal Petition No. 174-L of 2020
Whether the ocular account, alleged ransom cash, call data, recovered school items and medical evidence, assessed cumulatively with the land dispute and acquittals of similarly placed co-accused, provided a safe basis for maintaining Abdul Razzaq's convictions.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 10, 2026
Civil Petition No. 624 of 2023
Whether the High Court or Supreme Court should interfere with an appellate remand granting one fair opportunity to lead evidence, and whether remanded proceedings may remain inactive merely because connected proceedings are pending before a higher court without an express stay.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 7, 2026
Civil Petition No. 701-K of 2025
Whether cancellation of an FIR in C-Class and publication of the incident in newspapers entitled the petitioners to damages for defamation or malicious prosecution against the respondents.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 3, 2026
Jail Petition No. 41 of 2023
Whether the proved circumstantial evidence, the petitioner's failure to explain facts especially within his knowledge, and his post-occurrence conduct completed the chain of guilt for his wife's murder inside their matrimonial home.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 3, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 894 of 2026
Whether section 14A barred post-arrest bail where the FIR did not allege that the petitioner knowingly entered Pakistan illegally and instead alleged continued residence without a valid visa or permit, and whether the unresolved family and administrative status record called for further inquiry.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · July 30, 2026
Civil Petition No. 50-P of 2022
Whether the respondent's disputed resignation was genuine, voluntary and valid, and whether the Service Tribunal could convert an invalid resignation into retirement solely because she had completed more than ten years of qualifying service for pension.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · July 28, 2026
Civil Petition No. 260-P of 2022
Whether a legal adviser appointed to undertake the defence of all court cases relating to a government department could institute a civil revision arising from the same litigation when neither the appointment order nor the governing law expressly restricted that authority.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 24, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 2793-L of 2022
Whether Article 199 could be used to reopen a dispute after the NIRC rejected a belated application under Regulation 45 read with section 12(2) CPC, and whether pension could remain withheld despite final orders granting reinstatement, continuity and back benefits.
Lahore High Court · July 23, 2026
Criminal Miscellaneous No. 33164-B of 2026
Whether Parkinsonism that impaired the petitioner's movement, speech and self-care constituted infirmity under section 497 Cr.P.C. even though he was receiving treatment in jail and was described as vitally stable.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 17, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 423/2025 (appeal allowed); arising from W.P. No. 215416/2018
Could a Collector summarily reverse a settlement description that stood for approximately 44 years as a clerical correction when the alteration affected disputed possession and rights in Shamlat Deh land?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · July 17, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 1971 and 2395 of 2022
Whether an admitted agreement could be specifically enforced against one seller for his distinct plot when execution remained unproved against the co-seller for a second plot, and whether the partial decree was open to revisional interference.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 16, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 1183 of 2026
Whether the Sindh High Court could recall an earlier custody-return order and initiate contempt proceedings without addressing the finality of the Family Court order, the withdrawn District Judge appeal, the foreign custody proceedings, and the framework governing cross-border child return.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · July 15, 2026
Civil Petition No. 155-Q of 2022
Whether a longstanding gift mutation and official revenue entries, supported by oral evidence and possession, could be rejected on a bare allegation that the hiba was invalid when no cancellation proceeding or cogent proof of fraud, forgery or a competing title was produced.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 15, 2026
C.P.L.A. Nos. 2799, 2919, 3323, 5222, 5223, 5224, 5241, 5242, 5243, 5244 and 5245 of 2023
Whether the High Court could examine the validity of the PMS Rules under Article 199 despite Article 212, and whether the Rules exceeded the parent statute, unlawfully merged or changed cadres, permitted prohibited absorption, or created unconstitutional discrimination.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 14, 2026
C.R.P. No. 825 of 2024 and F.C.R.P. No. 44 of 2025 in C.P.L.A. No. 304 of 2022
Whether final findings on ownership, lease validity, rent entitlement, and regulatory authority could be made while the civil suits remained pending and affected persons had not received an effective opportunity of hearing, and whether review could correct the resulting miscarriage of justice.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 13, 2026
Constitution Petition No. 64 of 2018 and C.M.A. No. 4751 of 2019; C.P.L.A. Nos. 4613 of 2023, 2432 and 3568 of 2025
Whether the High Court could exercise jurisdiction under Article 199 to vary contractual and financial rights crystallized in an arbitral award made rule of the court, the resulting decree, and an implementing memorandum; whether later PEC guidelines could retrospectively override that framework; and whether the High Court could interfere with a separate NAB inquiry concerning an allegedly forged performance guarantee.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 9, 2026
C.P.L.A. 30-L of 2025 (against Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench judgment dated 11 December 2024 in W.P. No. 9147 of 2017)
Whether a compromise decree affecting minors' immovable property could lawfully stand without appointment of a guardian ad litem, express leave under Order XXXII Rule 7 CPC, and required guardianship permission, and whether the High Court could reverse the revisional order under Article 199 without identifying a jurisdictional defect.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 8, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 833 of 2025
Whether prison remissions could lawfully reduce a life convict's actual imprisonment below fifteen years.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 8, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 9-Q of 2026
Whether the general upper-age limit notified on 5 August 2025 could be applied in isolation to reject a serving civil servant who independently qualified for the automatic five-year relaxation under Rule 4(1)(ii), read with the beneficial-category election in Rule 4(6) of the Rules of 2012.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 3, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 300 of 2025
Whether the Inspector General of Registration could assign Sub-Registrar functions on additional charge to officers outside the prescribed feeder cadre, whether Section 6 of the Registration Act validated those assignments, and whether Article 212 barred the High Court's writ jurisdiction.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 30, 2026
Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 1103-L of 2016
Whether an alleged oral gift recorded in a 1955 revenue mutation was legally proved so as to exclude a widow and daughters from vested inheritance rights, and whether delay, possession, and later revenue entries could substitute for proof of the gift.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 24, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 367 of 2025
Whether an association of competing manufacturers violates section 4 by collectively fixing reduced prices at the Federal Government's request, even if the arrangement benefits consumers and its communications are described as non-binding recommendations.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 23, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 19-P of 2015 out of CPLA No. 192-P of 2009
Whether an unregistered 1932 sale deed and Mutation No. 63 of 1936, supported by cultivation entries, proved a valid transfer of ownership despite inconsistencies, failure of attestation proof and non-production of the official mutation record.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 23, 2026
Criminal Petitions Nos. 1033 & 1036 of 2024; Crl. M.A. No. 1207/2024 in Crl.P.L.A. No. 1033/2024
What must a trial court do when a witness shows that the written deposition does not accurately reproduce testimony preserved in a video recording?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 16, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 86-K to 115-K of 2023
Whether a Valuation Ruling validly issued under section 25A of the Customs Act ceases to operate merely upon expiry of ninety days, permitting the assessing officer to disregard it and assess the goods on transaction value under section 25(1).
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · June 10, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4245 of 2022 and C.M.A. No. 10808 of 2022
Whether compulsory Armed Forces service had to be counted under Section 9A for a later OGDCL employee, whether Section 5 of the 2001 Ordinance preserved the asserted benefit after corporatisation, and whether repeated applications could avoid laches in Article 199 jurisdiction.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 4, 2026
Criminal Review Petition No. 89 of 2025 in Criminal Petition No. 467 of 2023
Whether the sentence-only grounds concerning alleged mental incapacity, State-appointed counsel and forensic reports disclosed a patent reviewable error or sufficient mitigation, and whether the 2022 amendment to section 510 Cr.P.C. applied to the pending appeal.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 3, 2026
Civil Petition No. 675 of 2025
The Supreme Court directed the trial court to decide limitation and maintainability independently of a pending plaint amendment, without finally deciding the time bar.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · June 3, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4444 of 2023
Whether a worker described as temporary can claim permanent-workman status and its statutory benefits where the actual work is regular, continuous and permanent in nature, and whether a delayed grievance is defeated by limitation.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 2, 2026
Civil Petitions for Leave to Appeal Nos. 4818 to 4842 of 2024
Whether WAPDA's 2018 service rules could be applied retrospectively to disturb the settled seniority and promotion eligibility of employees already serving under the previous rules.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 2, 2026
Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 670 of 2024
Whether a probationer who did not satisfactorily complete the 44th Common Training Programme but later passed the 45th CTP was entitled to seniority with the original batch, and whether the Establishment Division's 2015 Office Memorandum was ultra vires the 1990 Rules.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 2, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 187-L of 2009 and C.P.L.A. No. 769-L of 2016
Whether completed proprietary rights in allotted land could be cancelled without notice, hearing and evidence of fraud, and whether generalized departmental negligence justified condonation of a separate 4,402-day delay.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 1, 2026
Civil Petition No. 1481-L of 2019
Whether statutory markup could be added to a banking recovery decree through Section 152 CPC, or sustained under Order XLI Rule 33, after the original adjudication had not granted it and the suit had been instituted under the repealed 1984 Ordinance.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · May 21, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 103-K/2024
Whether a contractual employee's earlier service could lawfully be treated as regular service and used to grant retrospective seniority over employees appointed regularly during the contractual tenure.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 19, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 5091 to 5093 of 2025 and Civil Petitions Nos. 986-P to 988-P of 2025
Whether the government's delay until 21 August 2024 in publishing 2018 regularization notifications postponed the employees' statutory regularization and seniority, despite the 2018 Act and the notifications fixing 7 March 2018 as the effective date.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 19, 2026
Criminal Review Petition No. 173 of 2017 in Criminal Petition No. 157 of 2011; Criminal Miscellaneous Appeal No. 9 of 2017
Whether a death convict's in-person review could lawfully be dismissed in chambers without hearing under an administrative Full Court arrangement, whether the resulting order barred a later review, and whether the conviction and death sentence should be maintained.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 13, 2026
Civil Petition No. 578-P of 2024
Whether qualifying contractual employees of PICO became regular employees automatically by operation of the deeming proviso substituted in Section 11(1), despite the absence or delay of departmental regularization paperwork.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 7, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 1718 of 2022 (against Lahore High Court Criminal Appeal No. 8321 of 2020)
Whether the ocular, medical, and forensic evidence proved the petitioner's guilt for an acid attack beyond reasonable doubt; whether his asserted youth or juvenility justified reducing life imprisonment to the fourteen-year minimum under Section 336-B PPC; and what compensation and survivor-centred measures followed.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · April 16, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. Nos. 384, 385 and 386 of 2026
Whether the Government of Sindh could permit appointment of DG, SEPA by transfer from general administrative cadres without adherence to the technical qualifications and experience prescribed by the Recruitment Rules of 2009.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · April 14, 2026
Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 3204 of 2022
Whether an annual percentage increase in child maintenance is to be calculated on a simple or compound basis when the decree does not expressly specify the method.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · April 9, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 2354-L to 2370-L, 2403-L, 2404-L and 2405-L of 2025
Whether uninterrupted contractual service preceding regularization must count as qualifying service for pension and, if so, whether that recognition also backdates regularization or creates seniority, pay-fixation and increment rights for the contract period.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · March 31, 2026
Civil Appeals Nos. 263 and 264 of 2015
Whether alleged collateral heirs could challenge a displaced person's unchallenged statutory allotments, registered gift and resulting title through ordinary civil proceedings, and whether their later suit was maintainable and within limitation.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · March 31, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. Nos. 379, 380, 384 and 389 of 2025
Whether Article 199(1)(c) permits a High Court to enforce Fundamental Rights against a Bar Council, and whether suspending advocates for representing a client or appearing during a strike violates Article 18.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · March 26, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4211/2023 (converted into appeal)
Who bears the initial burden of proving fraud, forgery or misrepresentation when seeking cancellation of a registered sale deed?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · March 24, 2026
C.P.L.A. Nos. 1560 and 1971 of 2025
Whether criminal and departmental proceedings based on alleged bogus educational certificates could proceed before the Civil Court decided the certificates' genuineness under earlier High Court directions.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · March 11, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 4364 and 4391 of 2024
Whether major disciplinary penalties could stand where disputed signatures were never forensically examined despite the inquiry officer's own recommendation, and what procedural duties governed the departmental inquiry and the Service Tribunal's fact-finding role.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · February 25, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 507 of 2025; C.P.L.A. Nos. 1461-L, 1464-L, 1474-L, 1523-L, 1555-L and 1586-L of 2024
Whether petitioners who did not use the statutory remedies under section 99-B CrPC and section 20 of the 2002 Press Ordinance within time could maintain delayed Article 199 challenges by alleging an infringement of Article 20.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · February 24, 2026
Crl.P.L.A. 248-L of 2016
Whether a clandestine audio or video recording can sustain a criminal case or conviction without dependable proof of lawful procurement, authenticity, integrity, and freedom from tampering, and how privacy protections inform that inquiry.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · February 18, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 3744 of 2023; C.M.A. No. 6730 of 2024
Whether an executing court in Sindh may use Section 51(e) CPC or its general execution discretion to block a judgment debtor's CNIC as a means of enforcing a money decree.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · December 24, 2025
Criminal Petition No. 209 of 2018; Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 188-K of 2022
Whether an acquittal at an intermediary stage under Section 249-A or Section 265-K Cr.P.C. carries the same double presumption of innocence as an acquittal after a full-fledged trial.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · July 18, 2025
Criminal Appeal No. 10-K of 2024 (against Sindh High Court order dated 19 November 2024 in H.C.A. No. 484 of 2024)
Whether a court may take cognizance of contempt or fix a date for framing charge under Section 17(3) without first giving the alleged contemner an opportunity of preliminary hearing and forming a prima facie satisfaction that the interest of justice requires further proceedings.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 24, 2024
Civil Petition No. 524-P of 2015
What constitutional responsibility follows from the continuing loss of forest cover after Article 9A expressly guarantees every person a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 15, 2024
Criminal Petition No. 58-K of 2023
Whether the High Court could summarily dismiss a Section 561-A CrPC petition solely because the trial court had taken cognizance, without considering whether the petition disclosed a prima facie abuse of process or another need to secure the ends of justice.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · January 23, 2019
Criminal Appeals Nos. 34-L and 35-L of 2018
Whether the Lahore High Court's acquittal was immune from interference, or whether serious misreading and non-reading of material evidence together with a full reappraisal in revisional jurisdiction rendered the judgment perverse and caused failure of justice.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · January 15, 2015
Criminal Appeal No. 126 of 2012; Criminal Appeal No. 80 of 2001; Criminal Petition No. 568 of 2011 (connected matters)
Whether sections 306, 307 and 308 PPC, and section 311 PPC, are available in a qatl-i-amd case punishable as Ta’zir, and how waiver or compounding differs between Qisas and Ta’zir.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · January 15, 2014
Criminal Review Petitions Nos. 8-L and 10-L of 2013 in Criminal Petition No. 896-L of 2012
What rules govern a successive application for bail, cancellation of bail, or suspension of sentence, particularly where an earlier application was dismissed on merits or withdrawn after arguments on the merits?