ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Monday vowed to protect the legislation enacted by Parliament and the Supreme Court’s order suspending the Supreme Court’s proceedings (Practice and Procedure). Today (Tuesday) has been declared as Black Day. Act 2023.
In view of the current political and constitutional crisis and the ongoing confrontation between various institutions of the country, the PBC had called the All Pakistan Lawyers’ Representative Conference of the Vice-Chairmen, the Executive Committee of the Provincial and Islamabad Bar Council and the representatives of the Supreme. On Monday, the Court and High Court Bar Associations…
After the end of the conference, PBC Vice Chairman Harun Al-Rashid and Executive Committee Chairman Hassan Raza Pasha issued a joint statement. He announced that lawyers across the country will observe a black day today (Tuesday) against the three-member Supreme Court bench’s order to stay the legislation passed by Parliament on the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023. will be celebrated as
In the conference, the Supreme Court was requested to prevent the political crisis from intensifying by giving time to the political forces to resolve the political issues. He also demanded recall of the Supreme Court’s interim orders suspending the proposed Practice and Procedure Bill, 2023, failing which the elected representatives of Bar Councils and Associations nationwide to protect democratic and constitutional rights. Will be forced to call upon the legal community to run the movement. Start with the People’s and Lawyers’ Conference which will be held in all the provincial capitals.
It was decided in the meeting that Pakistan Bar Council will organize a convention hosted by Balochistan Bar Council on May 6. It was also decided in the conference that the proposed Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Bill 2023 was passed on the unanimous and standing demand of the Parliament. The legal community says it will serve the interest of the public at large and advance the principle of independence of the judiciary.
It was also decided that before the proposed Act comes into force, an application under Article 184(3) of the Constitution should be filed and interim orders of suspension of the proposed Act should be passed by a bench of judges preferred by the Chief Justice. – Most of the judges of the Supreme Court.
The conference recalled that there were six judges in the bench whose appointments were always questioned by the legal community and members of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) as appointments in violation of the principle of seniority and any criteria set by the amendment. It was done without doing. JCP Rules
“Such orders by the Supreme Court suspending the operation of the proposed SC Practice and Procedure Act, 2023 will never be accepted by the legal community”, the conference decided. It also took a strong notice of the holding of so-called ‘Round Table Conference’ by some politically motivated and disgruntled elements of the Bar with political motives.
The conference also took a strong note of the holding of a press conference by senior retired officers of the armed forces who claimed to have struck a deal with a serving officer for political purposes, an attempt to further intensify the political crisis. will cause Derailed the entire constitutional process.
The conference called upon the present government and the ruling political parties to organize an all-party conference inside and outside the parliament and resolve the political constitutional issue and hold free, fair and transparent elections to the National Assembly and the provincial assemblies at the same time.
