Administration of justice

--- Courts cannot grant relief in a manner that runs contrary to express statutory provisions.

--- Arts. 199 & 187 --- Power to do "complete justice" --- Federal Constitutional Court and Supreme Court powers --- Limits of High Court jurisdiction --- Scope --- The only power of compassion that might exist or may not exist is only conferred on the Supreme Court and the Federal Constitutional Court under Article 187 of the Constitution and that too is different from the “scope and ambit” of High Court under Article 199, which can only exercise the power conferred on it by law or Constitution --- Despite having the power of rendering “complete justice” we do not lose our status as courts of law and still have to act within our broad constitutional fabric and judicial precedents.

--- Duty of non-consequentialism --- Exclusion of extraneous knowledge and political realities --- Scope --- For every Court, before they reach a judgment, it does not matter that they might “come under fire” or “face pressures” --- We cannot exceed the scope of our authority under the Constitution or the law, and we cannot allow our decisions to be affected by any extraneous influences such as concern about the public’s reaction to our work --- Our legitimacy lies not in making compassionate decisions but in adhering to uncovering what the law means --- We ought not to be influenced by our morality, personal understandings and political realities as we “have to do right to all manner of people, according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will” and “even if we could foresee what will happen, we would have no authority to let that knowledge influence our decision”.

--- Arts. 187, 189 & 199 --- Power to do “complete justice” --- Limits on jurisdiction of High Court --- Scope --- Constitution does not permit the High Courts to do complete justice or do compassion --- They in any form of their jurisdiction are strictly bound by law and under doctrine of stare decisis by decisions of the Courts superior to them.