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" INTERIM RELIEF IN TAX CASES INTERIM RELIEF IN TAX CASES     By   MANSOOR AHMAD KHAN, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan   In answer to a question in a superior Court as to what was his standing, the advocate replied, that it was barely 3 years. The Judge, much surprised, said he had seen him for the last 40 years and back came the retort that 37 years had been spent in waiting for his cases and cooling heels. It is a part of a daily routine to sit and watch the Court proceedings, of which the bail proceedings attract greater attention. The lawyers plead for bails, inter alia, in cold‑blooded calculated first degree murders, in gruesome dacoities and heinous offences in kidnapping of minor, in the rapes of even of innocent minor girls and other despicable offences against the society. The thought of a bail being granted, in such appalling circumstance, is repulsive but to the trained mind, there is room for consideration for the interim period, during which the alleged offender is presumed innocent. Even if convicted by the first Court, the appellate Courts are entitled to and grant the interim reliefs, including bails. Those charged with such murders, dacoities, kidnappings, rapes and heinous offences, until or if convicted, in the appellate proceedings are, in appro priate cases, known to be granted bails. A bail is an interim relief.   2. While criminal cases arouse notice and sympathy, the story of interim relief in civil and allied matters is as much an essential necessity and has not gone unnoticed. It is through the medium of equitable relief by ad interim and interim injunctions teat such relief is secured. A tenant is liable for ejectment in case of default in the payment of rent. In the ejectment proceedings and until…