Hearing <\/strong><\/p>\nAt the outset of the hearing, the Supreme Court accepted all the pleas seeking the formation of the full court to hear the case. CJP Qazi Faez Isa remarked there were three petitions for the constitution of the full court and the best solution to address this important issue.<\/p>\n
The federal government in its response submitted to the SC, urged the apex court to dismiss all the pleas challenging SC Practice and Procedure Act. \u201cPleas against the law passed by Parliament are inadmissible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Parliament has the right to legislation under Article 191 of the Constitution of Pakistan, the written reply of the government read and added that no one can bar the Parliament from legislation.<\/p>\n
The petitioner\u2019s lawyer, Khawaja Tariq Rahim in his arguments said the Parliament cannot interfere in SC\u2019s matters. To, this the CJP remarked, \u201cWhatever you are saying is not mentioned in the act.\u201d<\/p>\n
Khawaja sahab! don\u2019t go in the past, read the act which you have challenged, CJP Isa asked.<\/p>\n
Justice Athar Minallah remarked Khawaja sahab are you in favour of giving all the powers to a single personality? Whatever happened in the past, do you want it to continue? he added.<\/p>\n
During the hearing, the CJP advised Khawaja Tariq Rahim not to respond to the questions raised by him and his fellow judges abruptly. \u201cI\u2019m trying to make your life easy, note down the queries and respond in detail,\u201d the top judge remarked and added you can give written responses too.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want to make CJP unaccountable,\u201d CJP Isa asked the petitioner.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, the CJP chided counsel Rahim for referring to his \u201cpersonal opinion\u201d during the arguments and asked him to stick to the law.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is this \u2018personal opinion\u2019, please talk about the law,\u201d CJP Qazi Faez Isa remarked.<\/p>\n
He further asked: \u201cWhose right can be taken away by this law?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRs6.5 billion dollars were lost due to the court\u2019s decision in the Reko Diq case, As chief justice, I do not want such authority,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Justice Muneeb Akhtar raised the question that if there was administrative authority, had the parliament abolished judicial authority?<\/p>\n
Justice Musarat Hilali asked if the powers of the CJP had been clipped by this legislation. Justice Mandokhel inquired whether the powers of the chief justice had been withdrawn and the powers of the Supreme Court had been curbed.<\/p>\n
Justice Athar Minallah asked Khawaja Rahim if agreed that chief justice was master of the roster.<\/p>\n
Read more: CJP Qazi Faez Isa asks judicial staff to serve people seeking justice<\/p>\n
CJP welcomed upon arrival at SC<\/strong><\/p>\nEarlier, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Qazi Faez Isa received a warm welcome from the staff upon his arrival at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
Justice Qazi Faez Isa took oath as the 29th CJP in a ceremony held at the President\u2019s House on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In his interaction with the SC registrar and other judicial staff, CJP Qazi Faez Isa asked them to serve the masses coming to the court for justice.<\/p>\n
The law<\/strong><\/p>\nThe legislation limits the powers of the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice and to constitute benches on his own. It gives the power of taking suo motu notice to a three-member committee comprising the chief justice and two senior most judges of the court.<\/p>\n
The act also aims to have transparent proceedings in the apex court and includes the right to appeal.<\/p>\n
The PDM government had on April 10 passed the bill in the joint session of parliament after President Arif Alvi had returned the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has adjourned the hearing of the petitions challenging the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023, till October 3. A full court bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa was hearing petitions challenging the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023 \u2013 a legislation introduced by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[2730,7265,4204,138],"class_list":["post-19280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-cjp","tag-qazi-faez-isa","tag-supreme-court-sc-of-pakistan","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}