SHEIKHUPURA: Ferozewala courts remained closed for the fourth day in a row on Monday due to the disruption caused by the lawyers. According to sources, the lawyers acted violently and locked the gates of…
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday admitted for a petition regular hearing seeking directives for the Punjab government to device a mechanism for appointment of law officers with the AGP, the…
ISLAMABAD: Inspector Shakeel Ahmed has lodged an FIR Saturday in the Ramna police station against lawyers for manhandling him outside the accountability court on Friday. A video that emerged after the incident showed lawyers slapping…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has accused the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of adopting destructive tactics against the judiciary to shun the accountability of the Sharif family. “Clearly PML-N is…
A 14-member delegation of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) called on Punjab Governor Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana at the Governor’s House on Tuesday. The SCBA AJK…
Lawyers across the country Monday (today) have continued their strike on the eighth day and boycotted court proceedings against Quetta blast that killed 74 people. The Supreme Court Bar Association announced a…
In the wake of the Quetta attack, which killed more than 70 people, injured over 112, the lawyers all over the country have staged a protest on Tuesday (today). Lawyers in twin…
The lawyers’ community on Friday boycotted court proceedings to protest the kidnapping of Owais Ali Shah, the son of Sindh High Court (SHC) chief justice. The lawyers boycotted court proceedings in the…
The deceased lawyer’s chambers, house taken over by fellow lawyers after hearing news of his death Islamabad District Bar intervenes, seals the chamber; says it plans to auction off the disputed chamber…
Lawyers on Thursday boycotted courts in Karachi in protest against the May 12 mayhem that occurred nine years back when several lawyers were lynched to death in their chambers. On the call…
District Bar Association (DBA) Islamabad has decided to issue bio-metric security cards to the lawyers. The lawyers holding these cards will be allowed to enter into district courts without being subjected to…
Officials in the western Indian state of Maharashtra said they were in favour of allowing Muslim women full access to a landmark mosque in Mumbai, bolstering a nationwide campaign to allow women…
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed its alarm and serious dismay over Pakistan voting last week against a United Nations General Assembly resolution that called for recognising the role…
Former Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Asma Jahangir has said that lawyers and judges should also be held accountable for misconduct. “The entire legal fraternity gets maligned owing to negative attitude…
In a setting involving cancellation of Barrister Ali Zafar’s license and lawyers’ boycott of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Jawwad S Khawaja’s farewell parties, former attorney general of Pakistan (AGP) and chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council, Irfan Qadir served a platter of accusations to the state head against the outgoing chief judge who served for a record shortest term of 23 days.
The lawyers community held protest demonstrations across the country and boycotted the court proceedings Monday against the target killing of advocate Ameer Haider. Reports from across the country say lawyers boycotted court…
A day after two lawyers were killed by City Police Station Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Shahzad Warraich in Daska, a large number of baton-wielding lawyers, wearing black ribbons on their shoulders, carried out violent rallies across the Punjab on Tuesday.
