Lawyers to protest against LHC judge elevation to SC on 9th

ISLAMABAD: A variety of bodies standing for lawyers across the nation have actually contacted their participants to show up in large numbers at a convention before the High court on Thursday (Sept 9) to register their protest against the altitude of Justice Ayesha A. Malik of the Lahore High Court to the pinnacle court.

The convention accompanies a meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) which is to think about the elevation of Justice Ayesha Malik to the peak court.

The legal representatives are up in arms over the election as they feel it breaks the standing concept considering that Justice Ayesha Malik is just the fourth most elderly judge at the LHC.

The allure was made after a joint conference of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), the High Court Bar Organization (SCBA), the Islamabad Bar Council and the high court bar associations at the PBC workplace on Monday.

Plans for the All Pakistan Lawyers Convention were settled at the meeting.

The conference condemned the flow of a costs by the National Assembly pertaining to changes to the Legal Practitioners and also Bar Councils Act, 1973, by putting an arrangement– Section 5D– in the act that was against the “standard framework of the Constitution” along with a “gross offense of parliamentary norms and also autonomous concepts”.

The committee determined to test the modification via “all legal ways available”.

Akhtar Hussain, an elderly member of the PBC who stands for the council in JCP meetings, criticised the commission for disregarding the standing concept for altitude of high court judges to the High court.

Given that the rules associating with the appointment of courts were silent on assigning a quota to any province or a particular high court, it was not necessary that judges were chosen for elevation to the Supreme Court from a particular high court, Mr Akhtar argued.

Instead, a judge could be selected from any kind of high court, he emphasised. Akhtar Hussain recommended that Justice Athar Minallah, the Islamabad High Court’s Chief Justice, rise to the apex court since he was the country’s most senior high school court judge.

Describing the elevation of a lady judge to the Supreme Court, Akhtar Hussain wondered why was Justice Mussarat Hilali, fourth in the Peshawar High Court’s ranking listing, ruled out.