Our esteemed Partner, Mr. Jehanzeb Durrani, who possesses rare expertise in international law, has published an article, New Delhi’s Stand Against Hague, on the Indus Water Treaty and recent legal battles in The News: It is important for India and Pakistan to strengthen their cooperation and communication around the Indus Water Treaty. “Earlier this month, […]
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On 23rd June, 2023, we had the honour of presenting the findings of the 1st ever Empirical Study of Company Courts in Pakistan at a Symposium held by the SECP at Serena Hotel, Islamabad. The study was based on a scrutiny of all 98 cases instituted in the Companies Original
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In this book, the author has made effort to bring forth how different professions in Pakistan run their daily business and regulate their members. The book will provide you with an exhaustive list of different professions, an overview of the governing laws of those professions i.e how a profession injects members into it; how it
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The elevation of Justice Musarrat Hilali to the office of Chief Justice Peshawar High Court is a historic moment. In this background, we have put together an anthology of the judgments authored by her during the last ten years. We hope this anthology, the first of its kind, would be of interest to the legal
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by Umer Gilani, Muhammad Alee & Sajjad Hameed Yusufzai Earlier this week, on 24th October, 2022, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan approved the appointment of three new judges to the bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Although the general public does not have any constitutionally sanctioned role in the appointment of Supreme Court judges,
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by Muhammad Alee The issues that plague the legal system of Pakistan are no secret; rather, the struggle is in the search for its cure. According to a former Judge of the August Supreme Court, the average civil trial has a lifespan of 25 years, meaning thereby that a litigant must knock the doors of
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by Umer Gilani & Muhammad Alee Pakistan’s “rooftop solar community” is up in arms and the reason behind it is a one-word amendment recently proposed by NEPRA in its own regulations – to be precise, NEPRA (Alternative & Renewable Energy) Distributed Generation and Net-Metering Regulations, 2015. The proposed amendment will change the price at which
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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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