Chairman, State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan, Principal Office Karachi and others v. Shahzad Saleem Faiz and others

Background

Background

FCC allows State Life’s appeal: federal instructions needed Board adoption, and the family-employment policy could not cover an earlier death.

The Federal Constitutional Court has allowed State Life Insurance Corporation's appeal against a direction to consider Shahzad Saleem Faiz for employment under a family-claim policy. His father died in service on 24 May 2005, before the Corporation's adopted cutoff of 13 June 2006. The Court held that compassion could not justify extending the policy backwards where it did not provide that benefit.

Legal questions

Legal questions

Federal instructions did not automatically apply to State Life without Board adoption. Courts could not retrospectively extend the adopted family-employment policy to a death before its 13 June 2006 cutoff on compassionate grounds.

Court holding

What the Court decided

Federal instructions did not automatically apply to State Life without Board adoption. Courts could not retrospectively extend the adopted family-employment policy to a death before its 13 June 2006 cutoff on compassionate grounds.

Final outcome

Final outcome

Petition converted into an appeal and allowed; State Life’s challenge to the High Court direction succeeded.

Practical effect

What the decision means in practice

Petition converted into an appeal and allowed; State Life’s challenge to the High Court direction succeeded.

This summary states the immediate effect recorded in the decision. The original judgment and the facts of the particular case remain controlling.

Key legal principles

Key legal principles

• Federal instructions did not automatically apply to State Life without Board adoption. Courts could not retrospectively extend the adopted family-employment policy to a death before its 13 June 2006 cutoff on compassionate grounds.