Supreme Court Ruled: Contractual employees/workers should get the same pay as permanent employees

It was practice of businesses to enter into contract with a company for providing employees on contractual basis. The reason is simple that the Contractual Employees/workers cannot claim the pay as well as other benefits from the company as equal to permanent employees because the contractual employees was not considered to be the employees of the contractor […]

NO NEED TO OBTAIN COURT ORDER FOR CORRECTION/RECTIFICATION IN “CNIC” ISSUED BY NADRA

It has been noted that the NADRA usually issues direction to obtain court order for seeking correction/rectification of incorrect entry in the Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC). For instant, you have any mistake in your name, father name, gender, address whatever in nature and when you point out the same to NADRA, the NADRA official will[…..]

CELEBRITIES IN MISLEADING ADVERTISEMENTS WITH INAPPROPRIATE DRESSING & MOVES

This write-up has two parts i.e. celebrities in misleading advertisement and celebrities with inappropriate dressing and moves in advertisement. Needless to mention here that Mass media is evidently the biggest and the easiest source of communication between the agencies and general public. Media of today is playing an outstanding role in creating and shaping of public[…..]

DIVORCE UNDER THE PARSI MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE ACT, 1936

Under the Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936, there are 2 ways to dissolve/ disband the marriage. Section 30 provide an opportunity to disband the marriage relation through filling a Suit for Nullity. While Section 31 has given an option to dissolve the marriage by filling a Suit for Dissolution. Suit for Nullity: According to[…..]

HOW TO REGISTER A PRIVATE LIMITED COMPANY IN PAKISTAN UNDER THE COMPANIES ACT, 2017

The entire world is gradually drifting towards one global market without any trade barriers between the countries. A small unincorporated organization led by few partners cannot think of growth on large scale without corporatizing itself. Corporatization is the need of the hour. Corporatization has its own advantages such as Limited Liability, Perpetual Succession, Transferability of[…..]

CONSUMER PROTECTION IN PAKISTAN:

Tortious liability and claim under tort have no applicability in a country like Pakistan but interestingly with the passage of time our public policies are changing and special laws are enacted from tort so we can have a fast remedy and speedy trials. Tort is a summary procedure and have it’s significance all over the[…..]

Compensation in an Accidental Death of House wife. A woman is at once finance minister, CA, chef, dutiful wife & affectionate mother in the family.

An incident was took place in 2009 where a women was died to due to contact with electricity. Husband of died women filed a petition against the Electricity Department before the single bench of Madras High Court which was decreed in favour of the Petitioner and against the Electricity Department. The Honorable Court awarded decree[…..]

REGISTRATION PROCESS OF PATENTS IN PAKISTAN; A COMPLETE GUIDE

Registration of patents in Pakistan is governed by “Patents Ordinance 2000” and “Patents Rules,2003” in order to give effect the laws and provisions of “International convention on trade related intellectual property rights,1994” also known as “TRIPS agreement”. The TRIPS agreement introduced intellectual property law into the international trading system for the first time.  However, it[…..]