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The ad hoc appointments for this bench are drawn either from the Federal Shariat Court or from among the Clergy. [67] Decisions made the Federal Shariat Court may be appealed to the Appellate Bench, as the Appellate Bench of Supreme Court is the final authority on Islamic interpretation of law in Pakistan. [68]
A senior member of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) Munir Kakar and vice chairman of the Balochistan Bar Council (BBC) Qasim Ali Gajaizi and the chairman of the executive committee (BBC) in a statement regretted that such a directive was against legal and constitutional principles, especially when a 10-judge Supreme Court bench had already ...
The wooden bar in front of the magistrate's bench in an 18th-century outdoor courtroom in Belgium. The origin of the term bar is from the barring furniture dividing a medieval European courtroom, which defined the areas restricted to lawyers and court personnel from which the general public was excluded.
The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) (Urdu: پاکستان بار کونسل) was established by the Parliament in 1973 under the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the highest elected body of lawyers in Pakistan.
Bench used in a legal context can have several meanings. First, it can simply indicate the location in a courtroom where a judge sits. Second, the term bench is a metonym used to describe members of the judiciary collectively, [ 1 ] or the judges of a particular court, such as the King's Bench or the Common Bench in England and Wales, or the ...
The bar may be an actual railing, or an imaginary barrier. The bailiff stands (or sits) against one wall and keeps order in the courtroom. On one side is the judge's bench, the tables for the plaintiff, the defendant, and their respective counsel, and a separate group of seats known as the jury box where the jury sits.
bar: The bar in a courtroom that separates judges and lawyers from laypeople: All the lawyers licensed to practise law in a certain court or jurisdiction [1] bed: Furniture used for sleeping or reclining Sexual relations between individuals [2] bench: The location in a courtroom where a judge sits when presiding over a court
There are five high courts of Pakistan, each based in the capital city of the four provinces, plus one in the federal capital, Islamabad.Articles 192 to 203 of the Constitution of Pakistan outline the constitution of the courts, appointment of the judges, their oath of office, and jurisdiction of the high courts.