Daily Times

The Lahore High Court has set aside a civil court’s decision regarding the dismissal of a case on the grounds of not amending the petition as directed by the lower court. LHC Justice Shahid Waheed on Wednesday released a detailed judgement consisting of 12 pages on the plea of Akif Ali Shah. The petitioner has challenged the decision of the civil court which dismissed his petition on technical grounds. According to the LHC judgement, despite the orders of the court if the petitioner does not amend his application, the court still could not dismiss his application. It was not a very big mistake on the part of the petitioner that he did not carry out the amendments to the petition and the court, on this ground, could dismiss his application. Justice Waheed remarked that though it was against the court rule not to amend the application but the court could not fix the fault by taking suo motu action. The judgement said that judges should not act as judicial technicians, adding that the courts should not present themselves as a workshop of technical justice. Justice Waheed stated that there was a proverb that technical ground weakens justice.