Tag: Judges

ISLAMABAD: Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Saturday filed a civil miscellaneous application with the Supreme Court, demanding recusal of two more members of the reconstituted four-member bench seized with hearing of contempt of court issue.
Filed through his lawyer, Ahmed Raza Kasuri, the former SC judge pleaded that he had recommended the names of Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, members of the larger bench, as head of the superior

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa government is firm on its resolve to establish Islamic Nizam-i-Adal (Islamic judicial system) in Malakand division and appointment of qazis (judges) are in progress in Swat and other districts.
Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar said while speaking in the provincial assembly on Friday. Barrister Javed Abbassi PML (N) MPA from Abbottabad had questioned about posting and appointment of judges in according to 2009 Nizam-i-Adal

LAHORE: There is no room for corrupt and dishonest judges and stern disciplinary action would be taken if any such allegation is proved, Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry said on Friday. He made remarks while meeting Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) and Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) delegations at his chamber who called on him to congratulate him on becoming the LHC CJ. He asked the LHCBA, PbBC and other lawyers to point out corruption in the

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will today (Monday) announce its verdict on the formation of its bench hearing contempt of court cases against superior court judges who took oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO).
The oath had been taken in violation of a restraining order passed by a seven-judge bench of the apex court on November 3, 2007. A five-member larger bench comprising Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms' (PCCR) decision rejecting one critical recommendation of the Supreme Court on Article 175A relating to appointment of judges is most likely to be re-examined by the SC before giving a final judgement in January.
Commenting on PCCR's rejection of the SC's proposal of giving the judicial commission the right to overrule the decision of the parliamentary committee, Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan said,
"Under Al-Jihad

ISLAMABAD: In its third meeting today (Saturday), the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) will likely nominate two judges for the Supreme Court and 32 judges for the country's high courts (HCs), including the chief justice of the Islamabad High Court.
The meeting will discuss nominations for two judges of the Supreme Court - replacements for Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi, who retired on May 5 and November 20, respectively.
The meeting is

ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) on Friday unanimously approved all recommendations given by the Supreme Court (SC) regarding the appointment of judges.
The committee's recommendations will now be presented in the upcoming session of the National Assembly. The parliamentary committee for judges' appointment will have eight members - four each from the National Assembly and the Senate.
The four members from the Senate will continue to

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its verdict until December 6 on a plea against the composition of the bench hearing contempt of court cases against PCO judges.
The five-member larger bench of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing contempt of court cases against superior courts' judges, who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional

ISLAMABAD: A five-member Supreme Court larger bench was on Wednesday asked to first decide whether the PCO judges were served with only a notice or a show cause notice under the Contempt of Court Ordinance 2003, and then conduct further hearing into the matter.
The bench of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez was conducting contempt of court hearing on cases against PCO

KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) Registrar Abdul Rasool Memon submitted a report before a division bench of the SHC on Tuesday that revealed that 114 judges of the province have no vehicle for their official use.
According to the report 18 district and sessions judges of grade 21 and 91 additional session judges, senior civil judges and civil judges from grade 18 to 20 don't have a vehicle for official use.
Sindh Advocate General Yousaf Leghari and Finance Department

ISLAMABAD: Dr Abdul Basit, counsel for Justice Shabbar Raza Rizvi and Justice Hasnat Ahmed Khan, on Tuesday objected to the formation of the Supreme Court bench hearing contempt of court cases against the PCO judges.
Dr Basit contended that three judges of the bench had had an "ugly incident" with his clients, thus they did not want these judges to hear their case. A five-member SC bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui,
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ISLAMABAD: The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) should not be the only one to recommend names to the Judicial Commission, Supreme Court Bar Association President Asma Jahangir said while addressing the Islamabad Bar Association on Tuesday.
Two senior judges and the Judicial Commission should also have the authority to recommend names, she said, adding that if a member's relative is competent enough and their name is recommended, that member should voluntarily resign.
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ISLAMABAD: A senior lawyer argued before the Supreme Court on Monday that it had no jurisdiction to conduct contempt proceedings against judges of superior courts, as only the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) was the appropriate forum to initiate such proceedings under Article 209 of the constitution.
A five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court consisting of Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain

ISLAMABAD: A five-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will take up today (Monday) the long awaited contempt-of-court cases against the judges who had taken oath under the November 3, 2007 Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in defiance of its (SC) restraining order.
The bench comprising Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez will also hear replies and review

LAHORE: A 42-page-long tape recording of a telephonic conversation, released now by the PPP leadership, leads you to draw at least one conclusion: all notions of justice, fair play, rule of law, and supremacy of the judiciary, which the Sharif brothers repeat like a mantra these days, is just a smoke-screen,
hardly matching with their conduct when they were at the helm of affairs with most judges at their beck and them calling the judges to keep Asif Ali Zardari behind bars in

ISLAMABAD: As serious differences have developed in the four-party ruling coalition over the reformed general sales tax (GST) and the parliamentary committee on appointment of judges, it is for the first time in three years that the PPP appears to have lost the confidence of all its allies and stands alone to face belligerent opposition parties.
Although the PPP has so far been successful in keeping the coalition of strange bedfellows intact, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM),

ISLAMABAD: Already isolated by its allies on the issue of the reformed General Tax (GST), the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Tuesday ignited yet another controversy by nominating four treasury members for the parliamentary committee to appoint judges of the superior judiciary without consulting the Awami National Party (ANP), the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
A statement issued by the President's House said the names of four