Secret Cypher Trial on November 7, 2023“In the darkness of secrecy, sinister interest and evil in every shape, have full swing. Only in proportion as publicity has place can any of the checks applicable to judicial injustice operate. Where there is no publicity there is no justice. Publicity is the very soul of justice.” – Jeremy Bentham The Federal Government, through […]
Phantom of Liberty on June 6, 2023Celebrated American Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “Life of law is not logic rather experience.” Essentially, Holmes proposed that judicial reasoning must be done on the touchstone of pragmatic realism as the same often leads to the development of jurisprudence. Like all principles evolved by man for the modulation, control and regulation of the social […]
Phantom of Liberty on June 6, 2023Celebrated American Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes observed, “Life of law is not logic rather experience.” Essentially, Holmes proposed that judicial reasoning must be done on the touchstone of pragmatic realism as the same often leads to the development of jurisprudence. Like all principles evolved by man for the modulation, control and regulation of the social […]
Trojan horses in the legal fraternity on May 11, 2019Fali Nariman, the celebrated Indian jurist, says: “If an independent judiciary is the backbone of the rule of law, an independent legal profession is the catalyst that helps achieve it”. Recently, the executive committee of the Punjab Bar Council passed a resolution demanding the removal of Justice Qazi Faez Isa, a judge of the Supreme […]
One law for the elite on April 21, 2019A implementation bench of the Supreme Court has stopped the National Accountability Bureau from proceeding against Bahria Town and directed the company to pay Rs 460 billion to the government in seven installments. The bench was formed following a judgment by Justice Ijaz Afzal declaring the transfer of state-owned land to the company illegal and […]
Judicial activism and enforced disappearances on July 22, 2018On March 14, 2016, around a dozen men, some wearing uniforms and some wearing masks, trespassed into a house in Islamabad, they forcibly abducted Sajid Mahmood (the owner of the house) and disappeared. It is pertinent to mention that there is nothing on record to show that Sajid had any enmity or was involved in […]