An 8-member larger bench headed by the Chief Justice will hold the hearing tomorrow. (Photo file)
Islamabad: An 8-member larger bench of the Supreme Court will hear today the petitions filed against the Supreme Court Practice and Procedure Bill, 2023.
Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Mazahir Naqvi, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Ayesha Malik, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi and Justice Shahid Waheed are also included in the bench. The judges who wrote dissenting notes in recent times are not part of the larger bench.
Two constitutional petitions against the proposed Law Practice and Procedure Act have been filed in the Supreme Court.
The petitions were filed by Chaudhry Ghulam Hussain and Raja Aamir Khan through the mediation of Advocate Tariq Rahim and Azhar Siddique. In which the Federation, Ministry of Law, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister and Principal Secretary to President Arif Alvi have been made parties.
It has been argued in the petitions that the proposed Supreme Court Practice Procedure Bill is based on bad faith, the proposed Bill is a fraud on the Constitution.
The petitions have requested the court to nullify the proposed bill as unconstitutional, to suspend the proposed law until the decision on the constitutional petition is made, and to prevent the President from signing the proposed bill.
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