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The Supreme Court of Pakistan (Urdu: عدالتِ عظمیٰ پاکستان; Adālat-e-Uzma Pākistān) is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. [ 1 ]
Pakistan has two classes of courts: the superior (or higher) judiciary and the subordinate (or lower) judiciary. The superior judiciary is composed of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Federal Shariat Court and five High Courts, with the Supreme Court at the apex. There is a High Court for each of the four provinces as well as the federal capital.
Independent Judiciary – The Supreme Court as an apex court – a final arbitrator of all the decisions. Fundamental rights included freedoms of movement, speech and, profession and profess religion, right to life, liberty, and property. Language – English, Urdu and Bengali were made national languages.
The Supreme Court building on Constitution Avenue, Islamabad. The Supreme Court of Pakistan is the highest and apex court in the judicial hierarchy of Pakistan. [1] Its judicial membership currently composed of the Chief Justice of Pakistan and fifteen senior justices, also consisting the ad hoc appointments of the Shariat Appellate. [2]
In most legal jurisdictions, a supreme court, also known as a court of last resort, apex court, and high (or final) court of appeal, and court of final appeal, is the highest court within the hierarchy of courts. Broadly speaking, the decisions of a supreme court are binding on all other courts in a nation and are not subject to further review ...
The Supreme Court took up the issue when the FSC suspended the high court's acquittal of the convicts, saying this was without jurisdiction. Taking notice of the case, Chief Justice Nazim Hussain Siddiqui had summoned the entire record of the case from the high court and the FSC, while notices were served on Punjab Advocate General Aftab Iqbal ...
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan: Decided: 31 July 2009: Citations (Supreme Court of Pakistan 31 July 2009), Text. Court membership; Judges sitting: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Javed Iqbal Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday Mian Shakirullah Jan Tassaduq Hussain Jillani Nasir-ul-Mulk Raja Fayyaz Ahmed Chaudhry Ijaz ...
Ram Shastri Prabhune was the Chief Justice (Mukhya Nyayadhish or "Pantnyayadhish" ) in the apex court of the Maratha Empire in the latter half of the 18th century, during the heyday of that empire. He is best remembered for having passed strictures against the sitting Peshwa of the time for instigating murder. [ 4 ]