- Leave - refusing order which neither decides any question of law nor enunciates any principle of law in terms of Article 189 of the Constitution does not constitute binding precedent -

 2023 SCMR 584

Leave refusing order of the Supreme Court --- Art . Precedential value --- Leave - refusing order which neither decides any question of law nor enunciates any principle of law in terms of Article 189 of the Constitution does not constitute binding precedent --- Impression that a leave - refusing order endorses the statements of law made in the impugned orders and thus enhances the status of those statements as that of the Supreme Court is fallacious --- Such impression is based on inference drawn from the leave - refusing orders , while ' a case is only an authority for what it actually decides ' and cannot be cited as a precedent for a proposition that may be inferred from it