Pakistan Bar Council To Oppose Elevation Of Justice Ayesha Malik’s To The SC
Islamabad, Dec 30: Pakistan’s legal fraternity is up in arms against the attempt by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) to elevate a Justice Ayesha Malik to the country’s Supreme Court by superseding at least three senior judges, Dawn reported here on Thursday.
The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has called a meeting on January 3, 2022 ahead of the JCPs meeting on January 5 to chalk out an appropriate strategy to resist the elevation of Justice Malik. The JCP will on January 5 try to complete the unfinished agenda to elevate Justice Ayesha A Malik of the Lahore High Court to the SC,
Earlier on September 9, due to a lack of consensus during an extended meeting had forced the JCP to defer Justice Malik’s elevation as the first-ever woman judge in Pakistan’s judicial history to enter the SC.
