Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that judges have always strived for strengthening the Parliament.
Heading the 5-member Bench while reviewing the identical petitions regarding contempt of court act 2012 on Thursday, the Chief Justice also dismissed the notion that Parliament was being restrained from ‘working’, stressing that judges concentrated on their verdicts, regardless of ‘happenings’ outside their(judges’) sphere.
During the hearing, the National Assembly secretary presented the record of debate preceding the Contempt of Court act 2012.
On the occasion, Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench President Ahsan uddin Sheikh remarked at haste with which the bill was processed/ approved in a matter of days. “Any laws legislated as such would definitely contain errors”, he remarked.
Justice Awais Khawaja remarked that court could monitor the Assembly proceedings, while Assembly proceedings were fully protected according to article 63.
“Parliament can no doubt legislate, but there shall be no legislation conflicting with Constitution”, stated Ahsanuddin Sheikh, deliberating that government ‘legislated’ the act in such a haste that it even failed to take its own cabinet into full confidence.
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