It’s time
There was no need, really, for Justice Asif Saeed Khosa to remind, or perhaps reassure, everybody that they would “decide this case only by the law”, etc. Similarly, the honourable court could have done without the justice’s philosophical elaboration on how politicians are likely to interpret its rulings. He was right, though, that people will remember this case, and whatever ruling it brings, for a long time.
Finally, it’s not long now before the verdict is out. But since it’s not out yet, there’s only so far we can test the sub judice limit in print. It is strange though, at the risk of repetition, that the honourable court did not approach this case the way offshore mysteries are usually handled, especially since the great crash of ’08. The honourable judges were well within their rights to arrange for cash flow statements of offshore companies in questions – which is where these cases always begin.
Following the money trail is usually more logical than establishing who is dependent on whom, for example, or running after mysterious letters from distant royals that have zero legal value. As the judges poured over thousands of pages of ‘evidence’, hopefully they did not overlook some of the most compelling, self-explanatory ‘evidence’ there could be.
