Dangerous ban
The UK House of Commons this week voted 385 to 26 to proscribe Palestine Action, a grassroots group active in protesting Britain’s complicity in Israel’s actions in Gaza, as a…
Reserved stakes
The Supreme Court’s live streaming of a landmark constitutional case following the 26th Amendment is a welcome step that strengthens transparency, democratic accountability and legal literacy. For lawyers, scholars and…
Rise of legal AI
A quiet revolution is underway in courtrooms and law firms from New York to Nairobi. Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), powered by large language models like GPT-4, is no longer a…
Living through purgatory
The country is embroiled in a host of ill-perceived projections, which are the outcome of a flawed understanding of the existing ground realities and how they are likely to impact…
The curious case of the missing dissents
About two weeks ago, something small and technical happened at the Supreme Court – or at least, that’s how it was supposed to look. Two judges on a constitutional bench…
Noor and Banu
On the same day – Tuesday – when the Supreme Court of Pakistan upheld the death sentence awarded to Zahir Zakir Jaffer in the 2021 Noor Mukadam murder case in…
A step forward
AFTER wrangling over the canal controversy for several months, the federal government has finally settled the thorny issue through the Council of Common Interests (CCI). The prickly matter of new…
Ex-parte
IT is quite unjust of our justice system, particularly the civil and district courts, to hear the representatives of parties to a dispute at different, unscheduled times for the rendering…
How the justice system fails the working class
Muhammad Asif Javed Jutt did not just take his own life — he exposed the slow, systematic murder of justice in Pakistan. His self-immolation outside the Lahore High Court was…
A peoples’ quest for peace: Part – II
In 2010, the Jang Media Group in Pakistan and the Times of India Group in India launched the ‘Aman ki Asha’ (Hope for Peace) campaign. On January 1, 2010 the…
