Week 10 | Growth and implementation of Law of equity in Pakistani Courts.
Equity historically was an important source and it still plays a part today with many of our legal concepts having developed from equitable principals. The word equity has a meaning of fairness and this is the basis on which our law operates when adding to our law. Equity developed because of problems in the common law of which there were several: the main one being the method by which the cases had to be started in the common law courts. This was known by obtaining a document known as a writ