Courting The Law

Adjournment – The Dark Art Of Advocacy “Request for adjournment, counsel for the defendant is busy before another court, let the matter be adjourned.” That’s how […]

Panama Papers: Fair Criticism Of Judicial Act Or Contempt? The Panama Papers case attained finality on November 7, 2017 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan decided […]

The Question Of Appointment Of Judges Is A Question Of The Independence Of Judiciary A friend recently referred to a published news item about the transfer of […]

Pakistan Must Stop Legitimising Barbarity Under The Guise Of Blasphemy Law We have witnessed time and again that blasphemy law in Pakistan has been used as […]

Good Governance And Administrative Law Go Hand-In-Hand “Good Governance is not a phenomenon which can be described in words, it is rather a phenomenon which can […]

Mediation’s Struggle Against Formal Civil Justice System “Imagine for a moment that mediation is a product—a stain remover—that can be purchased from any supermarket. Almost all […]

Academic Positions At Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School Of Law (SAHSOL) LUMS

Complications In Lodging FIRs And Their Remedies The rule of law, which is a very well-known concept of the modern judicial system, is still a dreadful […]

ECP Seeks Amendments To Delimitation Law Expressing displeasure over the delay in amendment to the law that will pave the way for delimitation of electoral constituencies […]

Elections (Amendment) Bill 2017 The Senate on the 23rd of October passed the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2017 with a majority vote, thus imposing a ban on […]

Update On Smog Policy The Punjab Environment Protection Department recently informed the Lahore High Court that the Chief Minister had signed a ‘smog policy’ and the […]

HRCP Discusses Pakistan’s Contribution The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recently organised a media briefing to discuss Pakistan’s contribution, voluntary pledges, commitments, shortcomings and gaps in fulfilling […]

Christian Marriage Bill To Be Sent To The Law Ministry The Ministry of Human Rights has decided to forward the Christian Marriage and Divorce Bill 2017 […]

Petition To Block the Peshawar Bus Project A writ petition has been filed in the Peshawar High Court, asking it to stay the execution of Bus […]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Unable To Transact Agenda The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly could not hold a sitting after a large number of lawmakers, suspended by the Election […]

Freedom of Expression: Islamic and Western Perspectives The term freedom of expression, in a broad sense, has a lot of meanings and concepts. It is not […]

Narcotics Control Bill Deferred The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly speaker deferred a bill which sought to abolish the role of police in controlling narcotics in the province. […]