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| 2025 SLG 3973 2025 SLD 3973 = 2025 MLD 1208 |
Sindh High Court
Suits Nos. 118, 119, 592 and 593 of 1987, decided on 21st February, 2025.
Before Muhammad Jaffer Raza, J
Omar Soomro and Maria Khan for Plaintiffs. Hassan Ali and Syed Zain-ul-Abdeen for Defendants 1 and 2. Dates of hearing: 14th and 21st February, 2025.
Suits Nos. 118, 119, 592 and 593 of 1987, decided on 21st February, 2025.
Before Muhammad Jaffer Raza, J
Omar Soomro and Maria Khan for Plaintiffs. Hassan Ali and Syed Zain-ul-Abdeen for Defendants 1 and 2. Dates of hearing: 14th and 21st February, 2025.
ANWER MAJID---Plaintiffs
VERSUS
EMIRATES BANK INTERNATIONAL PJSC (formerly Union Bank of the Middle East Ltd.) and others---Respondents
Law:
Section:
(a) Malicious prosecution---
----Claim---Malice---Principles---For a claim to succeed for malicious prosecution, it is not sufficient to establish malice---Malice must be accompanied by absence of reasonable and probable cause---It is conceivable for prosecution to be driven by malice and for complainant to have genuine belief that proceedings were warranted---Malice can be inferred in opposite case i.e. from absence of reasonable and probable.
(b) Malicious prosecution---