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03/12/2025
Voice of the Child.
The Honorable Lahore High Court ruled that the controlling and decisive test for custody is the welfare of the minor and within this welfare assessment, the “Voice of the Child” and his intelligent preference must be given substantial weight - even against the natural parents’ preferential right.
The Honorable High Court held that although natural parents ordinarily have a superior claim, this preference is not absolute and can be displaced when (a) the child has been raised for years in a stable environment, (b) no neglect or adverse circumstances are shown, and (c) the child, being of intelligent and mature age, expresses a clear and consistent desire to stay with the other party.
31/03/2025
Eid Mubarak 🌷
08/08/2024
Alhamdolillah, on the Hon'ble Islamabad High Court directions passed in writ petition filed by us, the team The Legal Lines , the Election Commission of Pakistan has notified Local Bodies Election schedule in Islamabad.
31/12/2022
Assalam-o-Alaikum,
Let us all together make 2023 a year in which faith, peace, tranquility, and prosperity return to our lives, homes, offices, and throughout this world. Amen 🌹.
25/12/2022
Without education it is complete darkness and with education it is light. Education is a matter of life. Quaid-e-Azam, Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
23/04/2022
Legal Requirements for admissibility of Audio or video as a piece of evidence in courts.
Art. 164---Audio tape or video, proving of---Admissibility in evidence---Requirements for admissibility of an audio tape or video in evidence before a court of law and the mode and manner of proving the same before the court stated.
Following are the requirements for admissibility of an audio tape or video in evidence before a court of law and the mode and manner of proving the same before the court
(i) No audio tape or video could be relied upon by a court until the same was proved to be genuine and not tampered with or doctored.
(ii) A forensic report prepared by an analyst of the Provincial Forensic Science Agency in respect of an audio tape or video was per se admissible in evidence in view of the provisions of section 9(3) of the Punjab Forensic Science Agency Act, 2007.
(iii) Under Article 164 of the Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984 it laid in the discretion of a court to allow any evidence becoming available through an audio tape or video to be produced.
(iv) Even where a court allowed an audio tape or video to be produced in evidence, such audio tape or video had to be proved in accordance the law of evidence.
(v) Accuracy of the recording must be proved and satisfactory evidence, direct or circumstantial, had to be produced so as to rule out any possibility of tampering with the record.
(vi) An audio tape or video sought to be produced in evidence must be the actual record of the conversation as and when it was made or of the event as and when it took place.
(vii) The person recording the conversation or event had to be produced.
(viii) The person recording the conversation or event must produce the audio tape or video himself.
(ix) The audio tape or video must be played in the court.
(x) An audio tape or video produced before a court as evidence ought to be clearly audible or viewable.
(xi) The person recording the conversation or event must identify the voice of the person speaking or the person seen or the voice or person seen may be identified by any other person who recognized such voice or person.
(xii) Any other person present at the time of making of the conversation or taking place of the event may also testify in support of the conversation heard in the audio tape or the event shown in the video.
(xiii) The voices recorded or the persons shown must be properly identified.
(xiv) The evidence sought to be produced through an audio tape or video had to be relevant to the controversy and otherwise admissible.
(xv) Safe custody of the audio tape or video after its preparation till production before the court must be proved.
(xvi) The transcript of the audio tape or video must have been prepared under independent supervision and control.
(xvii) The person recording an audio tape or video may be a person whose part of routine duties was recording of an audio tape or video and he should not be a person who has recorded the audio tape or video for the purpose of laying a trap to procure evidence.
(xviii) The source of an audio tape or video becoming available had to be disclosed.
(xix) The date of acquiring the audio tape or video by the person producing it before the court ought to be disclosed by such person.
(xx) An audio tape or video produced at a late stage of a judicial proceeding may be looked at with suspicion.
(xxi) A formal application had to be filed before the court by the person desiring an audio tape or video to be brought on the record of the case as evidence...!!
PLD 2019 SUPREME COURT 675, 2021 SCMR 522.
31/12/2021
May Allah Almighty bless us all with Eman, Peace, Prosperity, Happiness, Good Health and Love, in the coming year. Ameen 🌹🤲
21/12/2021
Never think my way is high way. Golden principle for peaceful life by a jurist.
08/09/2021
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