Finality of higher-court orders prevents a lower court from...

Finality of higher-court orders prevents a lower court from revisiting or altering the operative effect of an earlier superior-court relief so as to prejudice beneficiaries; the appellants' promotions implemented pursuant to the earlier order were protected and the appeal was allowed limitedly to safeguard their career progression. Persons not impleaded in earlier proceedings but asserting prejudice from those decisions are not without remedy: the Court reaffirmed precedents permitting limited review or fresh proceedings before competent tribunals and granted intervenors liberty to pursue appropriate fora to seek individual relief; connected applications were disposed accordingly.

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