Supreme Court

Lesbian Mom Appeals Judge’s Refusal of Adoption to US Supreme Court A woman in Alabama requested the US Supreme Court to revisit the decision of an […]

Witnesses In Zain Murder Case Turned Hostile, Prosecution Tells SC According to the prosecution team in Zain murder case the witnesses retracted their original statements after […]

Defending The Indefensible  A few days back, I co-authored a set of proposals in these pages for making the National Action Plan (NAP) effective. For the […]

Top Court in Saudi Arabia Confirms Capital Punishment of Shiite Muslim Cleric The Supreme Court in Saudi Arabia confirmed the death sentence of Shiite Muslim cleric, […]

Difference between Constitutional Amendment and Ordinary Legislation The procedure and requirements of amending the Constitution and making an ordinary law is different. Therefore, an ordinary law […]

 Basic Structure Theory – Part II The Basic Structure Theory has long been debated in the judicial history of Pakistan from the famous case of Asma […]

Why Democracy’s Case Against the Basic Structure Doctrine is Weak in Pakistan – Part II I have argued earlier (in Part I of this comment) that […]

 Basic structure Theory – Part I Abstract: There is no such academic theory of Basic Structure in the constitutional jurisprudence of Pakistan, unlike India. Supreme Court […]

Death Penalty for Mumtaz Qadri Maintained The Supreme Court of Pakistan has upheld the death sentence for Mumtaz Qadri the killer of former Governor Punjab Salman […]

  A contempt of court plea was filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for addressing United Nations General Assembly in […]

Criticising Blasphemy Laws Is Not Blasphemy: Supreme Court Justice Asif Saeed Khosa while hearing the appeal of  Mumtaz Qadri (the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer) declared […]

Basic Structure & The 21st Constitutional Amendment The article analyses the constitutionality of recently passed Twenty First Amendment (hereinafter the “21st Amendment”) to the Constitution of […]

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 […]

Brazil’s Supreme Court Bans All Corporate Political Donations In order to combat corruption and the influence of economic power on politics and the electoral process, Brazil’s […]

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 […]

Civil Servant Not To Be Posted as OSD For More Than 30 Days – Supreme Court Azad J&K The Supreme Court of Azad Jammu & Kashmir […]