Ahmed Abbas It was February last year when Islamabad High Court witnessed a dark day after it was stormed by frenzied lawyers vandalized the property, laying […]
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Qanoondan and Courting The Law have started a new series of Weekly Case Law Bulletin to provide a quick roundup of important legal judgments of the […]
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Transparency In Judicial Appointments “Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?” This is a satirical query posed by poet-philosopher Juvenal in Ancient Rome which literally means, “Who will guard […]
Courting The Law at Women Judges Conference 2019
Courting The Law at Women Judges Conference 2019 The 3rd Women Judges’ Conference 2019 was recently organized in Lahore by the Punjab Judicial Academy and spearheaded by […]
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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 […]
Profiles In Justice
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 […]
Reforming The Process Of Removal Of Judges
Reforming The Process Of Removal Of Judges When the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was being drafted, little would its framers have imagined that […]
Before The Honourable Court Of Psychology
Before The Honourable Court Of Psychology One summer morning at a trial court room, a learned judge enters escorted by the bailiff of the court, cases […]
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Accountability In The Land Of The Pure Self-accountability is no accountability in a country such as Pakistan. Even the so-called independent bodies of accountability like the […]
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CJ And Taming Of Feral Black Coats – Something needs to be done about the ‘us vs them’ mentality of the Bar Campaigns, elections, strikes, and protests; […]
Lahore High Court Launches Mobile App
Lahore High Court Launches Mobile App The Lahore High Court (LHC) has recently launched its mobile phone application for both Android and iOS users. The app […]
No Real Argument About It: Judges Make Law – Declaratory Theory Is More Or Less Nonsense
No Real Argument About It: Judges Make Law – Declaratory Theory Is More Or Less Nonsense The declaratory theory is a principle concerning the source of […]
22nd Amendment Of The Constitution 1973: A Mixed Blessing
22nd Amendment Of The Constitution 1973: A Mixed Blessing Pakistani Parliament is in process of approving the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. The amendment proposes to […]
Fate Of Young Lawyers
Fate Of Young Lawyers The current election season for both Lahore High Court Bar Association and the Lahore Bar Association was recently concluded. Some celebrated their […]
Training Experts For Lawyers and Judges Required
Training Experts For Lawyers and Judges Required Task Description The European Union Punjab Access to Justice Project (EU-PA2J) will train 2,500 or more district lawyers in […]
Nine Additional Judges Took Oath at Sindh High Court
Nine Additional Judges Took Oath at Sindh High Court Nine Additional Judges took oath , raising the strength of Sindh High Court to 34 against the […]
Top Court in India Rejects Judicial Appointment Law
Top Court in India Rejects Judicial Appointment Law The Supreme Court of India decided that a new law which is to change the structure of judicial appointments […]