This week, the Pakistani Parliament has enacted a Bill to regulate the Practice and Procedure of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Bill will become effective once it is signed by the President. Even if the President chooses not to sign it, it will become effective after 14 days. The legality of the Bill is […]
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No More Strikes, Please! When terrorists struck at a local court in Charsadda on March 7, 2016, and killed more than a dozen innocent people, right inside the court premises, court-going lawyers all over Pakistan felt not only sad but personally insecure. Back in 2014, we saw something similar happen in the heart of Islamabad’s
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Profiles In Justice The Chief Justice of Lahore High Court has recently made 11 nominations for appointment to the Bench of the Lahore High Court. News of these nominations (made by the Chief Justice to the Judicial Commission of Pakistan – JCP) surfaced on 20th September, 2018 through media reports. The same media reports also indicate that
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Pak-Turk Schools Case and Proposals for Regulating Supreme Court’s Powers Under A.184(3) [Download the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Pak-Turk Schools case here: SC Judgment – Pak Turk Schools] On the 13th of December, 2018, electronic media reported a very unusual decision announced by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Acting as a court of first instance, the Court
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The Case Against Dissolution of Local Governments I – Introduction “Dissolution” is not something new to Pakistani law. The first time I read the word “writ” in the headline of an Urdu newspaper in our home, sometime in the 1990s, it had been used in the context of “dissolution” – the dissolution of federal and
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A few days ago, when bar-bench relations in Islamabad were already at an all-time low, the honourable Islamabad High Court (IHC) proceeded to announce a judgment directing the demolition of a significant chunk of lawyers’ offices located in F-8 katchehri. The aforesaid direction was issued while deciding Writ Petition No. 2906 of 2018 titled Ms. Shehnaz Butt v. Islamabad
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UMER IJAZ GILANI PARTNER Supreme Court I have been a part of the legal profession since 2010 when I graduated with a BA-LLB (Hons.) from the Law and Policy Program at LUMS. That was also the time when I first conceived the idea of setting up a diverse professional services firm by this name. In
