Procedure to transfer judges placed on record

• Two high court registrars back govt’s stance • LHCBA, LBA provide additional grounds to challenge executive’s power to transfer judges • Constitutional Bench to resume hearing the case today

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has submitted to the Sup­r­eme Court’s Constitutional Bench com­­plete record of the process of jud­ges’ transfer to Islamabad High Cou­rt (IHC), including the summary initiated by the government and the consent given by Chief Justice of Pa­­kistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi and chief justices of the respective high courts.

Headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, the constitutional ben­ch, during the last hearing to settle the dispute involving IHC judges’ seniority, had asked t...
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