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An Anti-Chaudhry Court?

An anti-Chaudhry court?

Legal eye After the expansion and contraction of the Supreme Court’s moral authority under Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s watch, there emerged a sense that judges lower down in the SC…

Quaid’s Courts

Quaid’s courts

WHEN Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto signed the Charter of Democracy, they could not have imagined that a crucial provision had been proposed by the Quaid 70 years earlier. The…

Courts And The Constitution

Courts and the constitution

The All-Parties Conference held on Friday agreed on implementing the National Action Plan against terrorism. One aspect of this plan that has garnered a lot of discussion is the proposed…

The Qadri Courtroom

The Qadri courtroom

Everyone is entitled to his prejudices. If Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, former chief justice of the Lahore High Court, is convinced that he is charting a course to heaven by defending…

Taming Of The Lawyers

Taming of the lawyers

In recent years, reports of lawyers taking the law into their own hands, harassing judges and going on strike for frivolous excuses have become commonplace. Pakistan’s superior judiciary has, however,…