Judiciary

Why Democracy’s Case Against the Basic Structure Doctrine is Weak in Pakistan – Part I The Judgment of the Supreme Court of Pakistan upholding the constitutionality […]

2 Former Bangladesh Judges Become Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration For the first time Bangladeshi judges, Former Chief Justice M Tofazzal Islam and former […]

An Excuse to Recuse It is a well-known fact that the judiciary needs to be independent of the other arms of the State in order for […]

The Riba Case And The Interest Based Financial System of Pakistan Article 2 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973, stipulates that all existing […]

With Apologies To Judicial Supremacy On the 17th of April, 1905, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Lochner v. New York, a case concerning […]

Democracy: Fact Or Fiction So we are back to “saving democracy”. You may once have thought that accountability was a significant component of democracy, but apparently […]

Dictatorship In The Garb Of Democracy September 15 is commemorated throughout the world as the International Day of Democracy. Yet, for a majority of South East […]

Lawyers Boycott Oath Taking Ceremony of Chief Judge of Gilgit Baltistan When the newly appointed chief judge of Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan, Justice Dr Rana Shamim […]

A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutions of Pakistan and the US The Constitution of the United States of America is the first ever written constitution and […]

Chief Justice Lahore High Court Directs To Decide Pending Cases of 2015 by December Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik has directed district and […]

A Human Rights Perspective of the Supreme Court Verdict on the Basic Structure Doctrine   In a recent verdict by the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), the […]

There has been a swing in judicial pendulum between assertion and abnegation, between withdrawal and return, but irrespective of the role the Judges have played from […]

The Supreme Court has been informed by the Sindh High Court (SHC), which is responsible for monitoring anti-terrorism courts and makes policy guidelines for the early disposal […]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan invites applications from interested candidates for 13 positions of Law Clerk. A law clerk, under the direction of the Hon’ble Judge […]

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has nominated a female judge Anisa Rasouli, the head of the Afghan Women Judges Association and a former juvenile court judge, to sit as […]

The Supreme Court passed a judgment, on Thursday, which aims to lessen the sufferings of litigants as a result of delays in verdicts. The Supreme Court […]

Through a notification dated 18th May 2015 of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights, Justice Hafiz Shahid Nadeem Kahloon has been appointed as an […]