A lawyer for a nurse under investigation in the death of Argentine football great Diego Maradona said Wednesday that doctors killed him through negligence. “They killed Diego,” attorney Rodolfo Baque told reporters after his client, nurse Dahiana Gisela Madrid, was questioned by prosecutors. Maradona died of a heart attack last November at the age of […]
Justice
Thousands march against far-right in France
Thousands of people across France on Saturday marched against “attacks on freedoms” and what organisers say is a growing influence of far-right ideas ahead of next year’s presidential elections. Members of more than 100 left-leaning organisations participated in the “Liberty March” in some 140 cities and towns across the country. The march was the first […]
Things have come to a pretty pass: Justice Qazi Faez Isa
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Judge Justice Qazi Faez Isa on Tuesday said he regretted things had come to a pretty pass in the country and the atmosphere was such that one could not freely talk about anything. Criticising the introduction of laws through ordinances, he said it amounted to usurping the job of parliament. “Shut down […]
Justice-Government & revenue authorities
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) came to power after a strenuous struggle in which the paramount slogan was ‘dispensation of justice’ (the basis for name of the party)but on eventually gaining power, this appears to have disappeared into oblivion. There is no denying the fact that the present government inherited a rotten system of government with umpteen […]
Access to Justice
In a remarkable development, the Indian Supreme Court in Swapnil Tripathi’s case, entertained and accepted petitions seeking declaration that Supreme Court proceedings of “constitutional importance having an impact on the public at large” should be live streamed in a manner that is easily accessible for public viewing. In addition, directions were given to frame guidelines […]
Justice for a few and injustice for many
In principal, rule of law means equal application of law, equal protection by law and equality before law. Who can claim, however, that this has always been the practice in Pakistan? In a blatant disregard of the principal recently a court was willing to hear Hamza Shahbaz’s petition and grant him bail on a day […]
A judge may speak
The different legal issues he spoke about were very important and tricky in nature. He greeted us and took the start with a smile on his face which continued until the very end. One by one, every knot was untangled and we were briefed in a solemn voice. We, the lawyers know the sanctity of […]
Fairness and Justice
The underlying principles that guide the societies and states are unifying, although there is an arbitrary dividing line between internal affairs and international diplomacy. The crux is that whenever fairness and justice is denied, it leads to problems both internally for societies, as well as for states in the dispensation of international diplomacy. Just look […]
ICC’s back down from US investigation bodes ill for justice
Today, our sublime mission of establishing transitional justice with regard to the human rights abuse largely revolves around the gravity of international law. But this credo can viably be achieved by upholding the efficacy of international law, a mammoth challenge posed to the global justice system. The US has shown its disdain for the International […]
Sudan’s Darfur refugees wonder when their turn will come
‘When we arrived here, there were TV crews and photographers, but now nobody comes,” said Abdallah, amazed to see a journalist turn up at his Sudanese refugee camp in Chad. He fled over the border from Sudan’s western Darfur region in 2004, a year after the armed forces and their allies, the Janjaweed horseback militia, […]