Legal News
Current Federal Constitutional Court judgments, orders, constitutional questions, and institutional developments.
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The FCC upheld NUML's termination of a probationer but held that an employer cannot disguise punitive dismissal as unsatisfactory performance to avoid due process.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that employees governed by non-statutory service policy cannot invoke Article 199 for promotion disputes, and a High Court that declines jurisdiction must not then decide the merits.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that materially enlarged allegations and denial of cross-examination vitiated disciplinary proceedings, and ordered reinstatement with salary arrears and back benefits under constructive continuity.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that ordinary and special remissions cannot reduce a life convict's actual imprisonment below fifteen years unless the sentence is lawfully altered through competent constitutional or statutory power.
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The Federal Constitutional Court set aside a summary change to a long-standing settlement entry, holding that disputed land rights require proper adjudication and affected possessors must be heard.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that the definition applicable to a 2012-2013 dispute required a sexual or gender-based element and that the High Court could not substitute its factual view in certiorari without a recognized jurisdictional defect.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that Section 4 of the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance creates representation only for children of a predeceased son or daughter, not children of a predeceased brother.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that eligible serving civil servants in Balochistan receive the five-year upper-age relaxation under Rule 4(1)(ii) automatically and may choose the most beneficial single category under Rule 4(6).
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that an employee who performed the duties of a post and later received Selection Board approval could not be denied incentive allowance because the department convened the Board after his transfer.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that Section 12A lets a Special Court decide a validly transferred civil suit with the transferor court's powers, without changing its institutional identity.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that contract service cannot count for seniority without express law and ordered SESSI to issue a revised seniority list.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that a litigant cannot avoid a missed statutory remedy and its limitation period merely by recasting the dispute as an Article 199 fundamental-rights case.
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FCC held in Altaf Hussain v Punjab University that HEC degree equivalence proves comparability, not programme eligibility or an automatic admission right.
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The Federal Constitutional Court held that criminal and departmental proceedings must await a civil court where liability depends on the genuineness of disputed documents.
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In F.C.P.L.A. No. 1183 of 2026, the Federal Constitutional Court set aside a Sindh High Court recall order and explained the framework for cross-border child-return and custody disputes.
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Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court held that landowners who accepted an acquisition award or missed Section 18 cannot claim compensation enhanced in another owner's case.
