- Justice Mandokhail, Justice Mazhar attended committee’s assembly.
- Assembly held to debate issues associated to constitutional bench.
- Justice Ayesha is not going to be accessible on Nov 14, 15, says SC.
ISLAMABAD: The recently-enacted constitutional bench, constituted beneath the twenty sixth Modification, will begin listening to circumstances from November 14, in keeping with a press release issued by the Supreme Court docket on Tuesday.
The choice was taken in the course of the assembly of a three-member committee — constituted beneath Article 191A (4) of the Structure — chaired by Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, who can also be the top of the seven-judge constitutional bench.
On Nov 5, the Judicial Fee of Pakistan (JCP) appointed Justice Amin-ud-Din — who ranks fourth in seniority amongst Supreme Court docket judges — as head of the seven-judge constitutional bench by a majority vote of seven to 5, with Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi among the many dissenting members.
Right now’s assembly was attended by Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, who participated by a phone name from Karachi.
In line with a press launch — a replica of which is on the market with Geo Information, the aim of the assembly was to debate issues for the formation of the constitutional bench.
In the course of the assembly, the Registrar’s Workplace apprised the committee of the pending circumstances that fall throughout the jurisdiction of the constitutional bench.
“After thorough consideration, the committee resolved that precedence shall be accorded to the oldest circumstances,” the assertion mentioned.
Moreover, it mentioned Justice Ayesha Malik is not going to be accessible on Nov 14 and 15 and “a bench comprising all accessible judges shall be constituted to proceed with circumstances on these dates.” The SC Registrar’s Workplace has been directed to checklist these circumstances accordingly for listening to earlier than the Bench.
The bench will embrace Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan.
The subsequent assembly of the committee might be held on Nov 13 at 12:30pm after Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar arrives in Islamabad.
A day earlier, the SC constituted a three-judge committee to repair circumstances, subject courtroom rosters, type benches, and determine weekly caseload for its lately established constitutional bench.
It was additionally determined that color coding of the circumstances shall be finished, that are clearly falling beneath the purview of Article 191A of the Structure and Senior Analysis Officer Mazhar Ali Khan had been given process to scrutinise the circumstances arising out of Article 199 of the Structure.