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5, Sched. & S.14(1)---Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution
Act (VIII of 1974), S.42---Suit for dissolution of
marriage---Application for production of list of witnesses---Plaintiff
who filed suit for dissolution of marriage against defendant also
appended a list of witnesses---Plaintiff who could not produce witnesses
mentioned in the list, filed another list of witnesses, which was
finally allowed and the Trial Court recorded statements of said
witnesses and only the statement of plaintiff was yet to be recorded in
the suit---Said order of Family Court allowing the second list was challenged by the defendant in the Shariat Court through an appeal ---Shariat Court accepted the appeal
and set aside the order of Family Court---Contention of counsel for the
plaintiff was that impugned order of Family Court being interlocutory
order and not a final judgment, appeal filed by the defendant before Shariat Court, was liable to be dismissed, because no appeal
lay against an interlocutory order---Contention of counsel for
defendant was that order passed by the Family Court was final order and appeal
before Supreme Court was competent---Validity---Application filed by
the plaintiff for allowing her to produce some other witnesses was
accepted by the Family Court; and that order was an interlocutory
order and could not be a final judgment---appeal
against said order was not maintainable before the Shariat
Court---Under provisions of S.14(1) of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Family
Courts Act, 1993, only decision or decree of Family Court was appeal able
before the Shariat Court---Findings of Shariat Court that application
filed by the plaintiff before the Family Court was a review application;
and that Family Court had no jurisdiction to entertain such
application, was contrary to record---Application filed by the plaintiff
for summoning witnesses, was not a review application, but was an
application for production of witnesses---After acceptance of said
application, statements of witnesses summoned, had already been recorded
by the Trial Court---After said development, whole subsequent practice
had become futile and academic; even on merit---Judgment of Shariat
Court, was set aside by Supreme Court in circumstances.
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