Causes of Delay in Disposal of Civil Suits and Solutions to Address Them In comparison to banking suits, a civil suit takes more time to dispose […]
Liquidated Damages & Performance Guarantees – A Complex Relationship
Liquidated Damages & Performance Guarantees – A Complex Relationship I recently read an article on Courting The Law titled Law of Liquidated Damages in Contracts – Under […]
Earnest Money Not So Earnest
Earnest Money Not So Earnest In the automotive and real estate business in Pakistan, sale and purchase is normally transacted through an instrument commonly known as […]
Corporate Abuse: Transnational Corporations and Violation of Human Rights
Corporate Abuse: Transnational Corporations and Violation of Human Rights On 11th September, 2012, a fire broke out at the Ali Enterprises textile factory located in Pakistan. […]
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights Under CPEC [Part 3]
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights Under CPEC [Part 3] In the last two articles, the basic elements of foreign direct investment and FDI’s relationship […]
Abortion Law in Pakistan: Reforms Needed?
Abortion Law in Pakistan: Reforms Needed? Introduction Abortion has been a much debated subject around the world. There are several reasons for it being perceived incorrectly. […]
Drones In Warfare: A Legal Conundrum
Drones In Warfare: A Legal Conundrum Textually, the word drone is used to describe “an armed, remotely piloted aircraft” or “a remotely operated weapon system”, keeping […]
Pak-Turk Schools Case and Proposals for Regulating Supreme Court’s Powers Under A.184(3)
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 […]
Kulbhushan, ICJ and Pakistan – Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence
Kulbhushan, ICJ and Pakistan – Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague has begun oral proceedings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case between India […]
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights Under CPEC [Part 2]
Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of CPEC [Part 2] In the last article, the issues that were examined included the fundamentals of […]
Has the Judicial System Legitimized Undemocratic Systems in the Past?
Has the Judicial System Legitimized Undemocratic Systems in the Past? Introduction – Democracy and the Rule of Law Owing to constant unconstitutional behaviors in the past, […]
NAB Law and the Bones of Contention
NAB Law and the Bones of Contention Background The word anti-corruption predates the making of the country. The first law to address it, known as the […]
Know Your Taxes
Know Your Taxes Taxation in sovereign countries like Pakistan has developed into two types. The “direct tax” that you have to pay is called as such […]
Contribution Of Justice A.R. Cornelius To The Jurisprudence Of Pakistan
Contribution Of Justice A.R. Cornelius To The Jurisprudence Of Pakistan It is true that the underdevelopment of jurisprudence owing to a lack of juristic work has […]
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights Under CPEC [Part 1]
Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of CPEC [Part 1] This is the first article in a series of articles which will examine […]
Questionable Tinkering With Retirement Age of Senior Judiciary
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Questionable Tinkering With Retirement Age of Senior Judiciary Let us first get one thing straight, and this humble author would […]
Foreign Arbitration Agreements – A Pakistani Perspective
Foreign Arbitration Agreements – A Pakistani Perspective Recently, a fellow columnist authored an article[1] titled “Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards In Pakistan” published on 15 December […]