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Judgments on s.7, Guardians and Wards Act 1890 (2025)
Pakistani court judgments that consider s.7, Guardians and Wards Act 1890, summarised in plain English, newest first. Each gives the issue, what the court held and what it means in practice, and is reviewed by an advocate.
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Habeas corpus will not decide custody when the Guardian Court is already seized
Hamna Fahad v. CCPO, Lahore etc.
Issue: Should the High Court return two children to their mother in habeas proceedings after the father allegedly took them from her at…
Held: No. In the precedents the mother relied on, the child was a suckling baby or had been removed by deception from the mother's custody; here both parents had lived with the children in Dubai, and whether the mother left or…
Art. 199, Constitution of Pakistan 1973s.25, Guardians and Wards Act 1890s.7, Guardians and Wards Act 1890