Nine reportable items across the upload window of 27–29 August 2026 (with 24–26 August and carried-forward Sindh items) — one from the Federal Constitutional Court, one from the Supreme Court, three from the Lahore High Court and four from the Sindh High Court (the Islamabad High Court returned no in-window entries).

Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan

• Additional Note of Syed Arshad Hussain Shah J. in Civil Appeals No. 192-P of 2010 — a concurring note confining the consequences of the majority’s prospective ruling in the Fazale Haq College land-acquisition appeals (digested on 25 August): enhanced compensation already received in good faith under Saddaqat Ali Khan, while it held the field, is not to be refunded, and landowners who were not party to the proceedings may still avail section 148 CPC to come in at any stage in pending cases — a compact template, drawing on the Judges Pension Case, for the restitutionary consequences of prospective overruling.

Supreme Court of Pakistan

• Sahibzada Hassan Ali v. Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — where a statute itself regularises service with effect from its commencement, belated gazette publication of the consequential notification is a directory lapse which neither postpones the accrued right nor reorders inter-se seniority; a publication requirement is construed as directory unless the parent law attaches nullity to non-publication, and the State cannot take advantage of its own administrative delay. Petitions converted into appeals and allowed; the Service Tribunal judgment set aside and the petitioners’ seniority restored.

Lahore High Court

• Riaz Hussain v. The State — possession of a valid and effective driving licence is the line of demarcation between qatl-i-khata under section 320 PPC and qatl-bis-sabab under section 322 PPC; a driver holding only an HTV (and no PSV) licence driving a bus is unlicensed for this purpose, and that an offence carries only diyat does not by itself make it bailable. Post-arrest bail dismissed.
• Muhammad Sarwar v. The State — possession simpliciter of counterfeit currency does not make out section 489-B PPC, and a case that at most falls under section 489-C (max seven years) is one of further inquiry outside the prohibitory clause of section 497 Cr.P.C.; a confession to the raiding party is inadmissible and independent witnesses were lacking. Post-arrest bail granted.
• Muhammad Fazil v. The State — statutory-delay bail under the third proviso to section 497(1) Cr.P.C. is a right once the two-year condition is met, and prior abscondance is no bar where the case falls within further inquiry; the fourth proviso is not self-executing and the prosecution must display its cards by reference to material. Post-arrest bail granted on statutory delay, the delay not attributable to the accused.

Sindh High Court

• Zulfiqar Shakoor v. Sindh Workers Welfare Board — an arbitral award which the arbitrator himself founds on an express finding that credible evidence is absent discloses an error apparent on its face and is open to limited judicial interference under sections 30 and 33 of the Arbitration Act 1940; section 26-A’s duty to give reasons exists so the court can test the evidentiary foundation. Appeal dismissed; the single judge’s setting aside of the overhead-expenditure and loss-of-profit awards maintained, the refund of retention money upheld.
• Abdul Jabbar v. Federation of Pakistan — a competent authority cannot silently escalate its own enquiry officer’s findings from irregularity to dishonesty, nor punish under regulatory sub-clauses corresponding to no charge ever framed; Article 212 is no bar for employees of an autonomous statutory corporation governed by statutory regulations, who may sue under Article 199. Dismissal and appellate orders of the State Life Corporation set aside and substituted by the minor penalty of censure, with reinstatement, continuity and back benefits.
• Abdur Rahim v. Jamaluddin — an heir of a deceased tenant found in joint possession of the demised premises is a statutory tenant within section 2(j) of the SRPO 1979 and not a sub-lessee, and concurrent ejectment findings resting on misreading of evidence may be set aside in judicial review. Petition allowed; the ejectment orders of both courts below set aside and the rent case dismissed.
• Province of Sindh v. Muhammad Imran — additional evidence at the appellate stage under Order XLI Rule 27 CPC is a discretionary exception, not a remedy for a party’s own failure to produce public records within its possession at trial; even official documents require a full explanation for non-production, the more so where the party seeking them is their custodian. Civil revision dismissed, the appellate court’s refusal upheld.