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Senior Lawyers have read the Supreme Court’s decision in the Faisal Vawda case as a window of opportunity for Nawaz Sharif to reverse his longtime disqualification through SC and reenter in electoral politics.

The legal fraternity held a full strike in Punjab's courts to protest the conviction of a lawyer for not wearing a gown while appearing in the court of a senior puisne LHC judge 

July 13, By Ahmed Saeed: Senior lawyers have decried the practice of elevating junior judge to the SC. They said out of turn promotion is used to manage and incentivize high court judges to get favourable judgments from them.

لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے حمد کے خلاف دائر درخواست کو اعتراض لگا کر واپس کر دیا جب کہ پاکستان کی مختلف وکلاء تنظیموں اور خواتین صحافیوں نے حامد میر کے حق میں قرارددیں منظور کرتے ہوئے ان کے پروگرام کو بحال کرنے کا مطالبہ کیا ہے

The family of a married woman who was murdered by her stalker staged a protest outside the Rawalpindi Press Club, and appealed to the Prime Minister for immediate justice. The Punjab Bar Council and the Lahore High Court Bar Association threaten to stage protests if FIRs lodged against 32 lawyers involved in the attack on the Islamabad High Court are not discarded. Overcrowding in Punjab’s prisons went down from 146 percent to 37 percent in the past decade.

February 9th, 2021; By Rehan Piracha; LAHORE; The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday issued contempt notices to 17 lawyers for their role in Monday’s ransacking of the high court premises as the Islamabad Bar Council called for a strike on Wednesday, rallying behind accused lawyers.

According to the notification released on Friday in Karachi, RO Salman Talibuddin, also the Advocate General (AG) Sindh, said that no member would be allowed entry to cast votes in the polling area without wearing a mask and will have to provide satisfactory evidence of being enrolled with the SBC.

October 28th, 2020; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; Shahid Raza, vice-chairman KP Bar Council called the government’s amendments “unconstitutional” stating that these changes will create undue problems for the litigants and will put further pressure on an already over-burdened High Court. He also criticized the formation of “local commissions” for the purpose of collecting evidence calling it a return to the “Jirga System”.  

The first time Irshad Nasreen was abducted was in October 2019 when Nazar Farid, Shah Nawaz, and their unidentified accomplice had abducted her and subjected her to physical torture at Nazar Farid’s place.

SCBA Declares Support For Justice Isa: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) declared its solidarity with Supreme Court judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa in as the hearing on the Presidential references filed against him enters a crucial stage. The ...