Academic matters
Academic matters legal meaning, translation and judicial precedents.
Meaning & Judicial Interpretation: (اردو مفہوم اور قانونی تشریح)
Court should be extremely reluctant to substitute its own views as to what is wise, prudent and proper in relation to academic matters in preference to those formulated by professional men possessing technical expertise and rich experience of actual day-to-day working of educational institutions and the departments controlling them.
Courts are neither equipped nor have the academic or technical background to substitute themselves in place of statutory professional technical bodies and take decisions in academic matters involving standards and quality of technical education
If courts start entertaining petitions from individual institutions or students to permit courses of their choice, either for their convenience or to alleviate hardship or to provide better opportunities, or because they think that one course is equal to another, without realizing the repercussions on the field of technical education in general, that will lead to chaos in education and deterioration in standards of education
Role of statutory expert bodies on education and role of courts are well defined by a simple rule i.e. "if it is a question of educational policy or an issue involving academic matter, the courts keep their hands off but where any provision of law or principle of law has to be interpreted, applied or enforced, with reference to or connected with education, the courts will step in."
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Precedents & Case Laws citing "Academic matters"
1981 S C M R 429
THE VICE-PRESIDENT-Petitioner Versus CHAIRMAN, PUNJAB APPELLATE TRIBUNAL AND OTHERS-Respondents
Court: -- S. 25-A and Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 199-Re-instate ment-Writ proceedings-Employee dismissed from service for miscon duct but re-instated on appeal-High Court on writ petition being filed dismissing same on ground of counsel having conceded matter being fought only as an academic matter for future guidance inasmuch as respondent had already resumed duty and that question of past benefits being only a consequential matter to be agitated before appropriate forum could not be proper subject-matter of writ petition-Held, re-instatement of petitioner to circumstances neither rendered proceedings in High Court infructuous nor made it only academic-- Re-instate ment having been made pursuant to order of Labour Appellate Tribunal having to be complied with, compliance made under protest acid subject to result of litigation and not conclusive -of matter. Industrial dispute.P L D 1962 Supreme Court 35
Petitioners Versus THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB, THROUGH ITS
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan2025 C L C 1990
AYESHA BATOOL — Petitioner Versus JOINT ADMISSION COMMITTEE FOR ADMISSION IN MEDICAL COLLEGES OF AJ&K through Chairman and 4 others — Respondents
Court: High Court AJ&K2011 CLC 230
MEMOONA NOUREEN — Appellant Versus VICE-CHANCELLOR, FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY, RAWALPINDI — Respondent
Court: Lahore2024 S C M R 46
SUNDAS and others — Petitioners Versus KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY through V.C. Peshawar and others — Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan2016 P L C (C
MUHAMMAD MUNEER MALIK and others Versus ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY and others
Court: Islamabad High Court2012 S C M R 1841
SANCHIT BANSAL and another — Appellants Versus JOINT ADMISSION BOARD (JAB) and others — Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of India2020 M L D 1510
TOOBA SAEED — Petitioner Versus CHAIRMAN, ADMISSION COMMITTEE BOLAN
Court: Balochistan1990 C L C 1284
JAMIL TAHIRA‑‑Petitioner Versus VICE‑CHANCELLOR, GOMAL UNIVERSITY,
Court: PeshawarP L D 2011 Islamabad 10
HASHAAM SAEED and another — Petitioners Versus NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES (NU-FAST) through Director and another — Respondents
Court: High Court