Writ Petition No. 64981 of 2025Harris Rasheed and another Versus The Learned Guardian Judge and 2 Others.Announced in open Court on 08.01.2026.فیملی مقدمات میں غیر ضروری اور طویل جرح پر لاہور ہائیکورٹ کا انتہائی سخت ردعمل۔The law is settled that a witness when subjected to unduly lengthy cross-examination, which also consists of many irrelevant and misdirected questions, the contradiction, if any, can lose its significance. Such type of cross-examination is repeatedly discouraged. The purpose of cross-examination is to assist the Court in bringing the truth to light by disclosing or clarifying matters which witnesses may wish to conceal or confuse from motives of partisanship…Effective cross-examination could be confined within a narrow compass. The question must not go beyond reasonable limits.finally the Honourable Court observed that the Family Court Act being the special law requires firm adherence, otherwise the essence and effectiveness of the law will be frustrated. The learned Family / Guardian Courts, therefore, are required to actively curb the undesireable delays instead of becoming silent spectators and permitting the parties or their pleader to frustrate very purpose of special enactment(s).