New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) on Friday wrote to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana stating that the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) cannot have a 'search committee' to select judges for the Delhi High Court.
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said that the introduction of electoral reforms were imperative to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections in the country.
“We want to hold elections on which no one could raise a finger and the electoral reforms will guarantee fair elections,” he expressed these views while talking to a delegation of District Bar Rawalpindi, Lahore High Court Bar Rawalpindi, Punjab Bar Council, and High Court Bar Multan.
The minister said that the government was well aware of the lawyers’ problems and it was the top priority of the government to solve the problems of the lawyer community. He said that his family was being known in the areas for doing politics or for adopting the lawyer profession.
References and vendettas
Supreme Court Judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Soon after the judgment in the Faizabad sit-in case in February 2019, unconfirmed news began to surface that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led government was planning to file a presidential reference against outspoken Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
Several review petitions were filed by different political parties and the government institutions against that judgment wherein he questioned the conduct of civilian and military functionaries. Some petitioners even raised the question that Justice Isa, by the authoring judgment, had violated his code of conduct.
In May 27, 2019, a message was being circulated among lawyers and media persons against undeclared properties of superior courts judges and their spouses without mentioning their names. It was also stated in that message that the law ministry had no option but to file a reference against them in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC).
Justice Isa off the hook, finally
SC with a majority vote allows review petitions filed against its June 19, 2020
A file photo of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. PHOTO: EXPRESS
ISLAMABAD:
In a rare development, the Supreme Court with a majority of 6 to 4 has allowed the review petitions filed against its June 19, 2020 order for the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to conduct an inquiry into the foreign properties of the family members of apex court judge Qazi Faez Isa.
With this verdict, Justice Isa – who is in line to become the chief justice of Pakistan – is vindicated of the allegations leveled in a June 2020 presidential reference that claimed that the apex court judge had committed misconduct by not disclosing his family members foreign assets in his wealth statement.
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The Court has issued a slew of directions taking note of the COVID19 second wave.
In a suo moto action taken in view of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Allahabad High Court has directed the Central Government and Indian Counsel for Medical Research to consider giving vaccination to students pursing higher education and giving board examinations. Central Government and Indian Counsel for Medical Research must rethink for extending the benefit of vaccination to students pursuing higher education and those appearing in Board examination of high school and intermediate looking to the large scale infection in population of younger generation. If the Board and other examination conducting bodies are going for offline examination then government must explore viability to extend benefit of vaccination to such students as well , the Court observed.