Insights

Plain-language notes on the law

Short explanations of the questions clients ask us most, written by the firm's advocates. For the latest rulings, see the digest of Supreme Court and FCC judgments.

• Service law

  Filing a service appeal before the Punjab Service Tribunal

  Who can appeal, the departmental remedy you must exhaust first, the thirty-day limit, and what follows in the Supreme Court.

• NAB & FIA

  Pre-arrest bail in NAB and FIA matters

  When the courts protect a person from arrest, what must be shown, and why the first question in a NAB case is jurisdiction.

• Family law

  Khula: how a wife obtains dissolution of marriage through the Family Court

  The suit, the pre-trial reconciliation stage, the question of dower, and when the decree takes effect.

• Criminal & civil

  Dishonoured cheque: criminal case under section 489-F or civil recovery?

  What section 489-F PPC requires, when a summary suit is the better route, and how the Supreme Court treats cheques given as security.