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(a) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---.--- ---.--- O. IX, R. 7 & O.XVII, R.1---.---Provision of O.IX, R.7, C.P.C. ¬Applicability---.---Remedy against illegal order of ex parte proceedings has to be sought under O.IX, R.7, C.P.C.---.---Such rule would apply both to absence on first day of hearing and adjourned dates of hearing---.---Such rule would be attracted only, if defendant wanted setting aside of proceedings taken in his absence---.---Defendant can join proceedings at any subsequent stage without getting ex parte proceedings set aside. Landhi Industrial Trading Estate Ltd. v. Government of Pakistan 1970 SCMR 2.51 and Manzoor Ahmad Bhatti v. Road Transport Corporation West Pakistan and another PLD 1973 Lah. 659 ref. (b) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---.--- ---.--- O. IX, R.7---.---Application for setting aside order' of ex parte proceedings---.---No limitation is provided for such application under O.IX, R.7, C.P.C. (c) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---.--- ---.--- O. IX, R.7---.---Application for setting aside order of ex parte proceedings---.---Duty of Court---.---Rules laid down in C.P.C. are intended for advancing justice and not for retarding same purely on technicalities---.---Court, while considering such application, must take a lenient view and pass a favourable order in favour of defendant. Landhi Industrial Trading Estate Ltd. v. Government of Pakistan 1970 SCMR 251 and Manzoor Ahmad Bhatti v. Road Transport Corporation West Pakistan and another PLD 1973 Lah. 659 rel. (d) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---.--- ---.--- O. IX, R.7---.---Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution Act (VIII of 1974), S.42---.---Order of ex parte proceedings set aside by Courts below---.---Validity---.---Where a discretion had already been exercised by Courts below in favour of defendant, then Supreme Court would not normally interfere in judicial exercise of discretion---.---Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. THIS JUDGMENT DELIVERED BY: MUHAMMAD YUNUS SURAKHAVI, CHIEF JUSTICE:---.--- This appeal, by way of leave of the Court, has been directed against the judgment passed by the High Court on 20 3 2003, whereby the revision petition filed by the…

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