Justice Qazi Faez Isa sworn in as CJP
Justice Qazi Faez Isa became the 29th CJP to serve the country. Justice Isa had an association with the law spanning over forty-five years.
A full-court bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa will hear the review petitions [clubbed together] against the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023
ISLAMABAD ( Web News )
President Dr Arif Alvi on Sunday administered oath of Chief Justice of Pakistan to Justice Qazi Faez Isa, the most senior Judge of the Supreme Court.
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, senior military leadership, governors , caretaker chief ministers and caretaker ministers attended the oath taking ceremony which was held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr.
Besides, Judges of the Supreme Court, Judges of the Islamabad High Court, Federal Shariat Court, office bearers of bars, law officers, members of bars and former judges were also present.
Justice Qazi Faez Isa became the 29th CJP to serve the country. Justice Isa had an association with the law spanning over forty-five years. He had worked as a lawyer for about 27 years and was appointed as the Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court on 5 August 2009. He was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court on 5 September 2014.
A full-court bench will hear the review petitions against the Supreme Court P & P Act, 2023
A full-court bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa will hear the review petitions [clubbed together] against the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023 – a legislation introduced by the former coalition government – tomorrow (Monday).
In this way, the new chief justice will hear one of the most important cases currently pending with the Supreme Court on his very first working day.
Earlier, his predecessor Umar Ata Bandial, who was heading an eight-member bench, had suspended the law.
The Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023 has curbed the chief justice’s powers to take suo motu in individual capacity and vested the same to a three-member committee comprising the chief justice and the next two most senior judges.
Moreover, the legislation also says that the three-member committee would also responsible for constituting benches to handle cases with the majority vote being the mode of making a decision in case there is a disagreement.
Last month, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah suggested that the chief justice should halt proceedings of cases instituted under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, until a final decision on the fate of the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act, 2023.
His remarks were part of the two-page note he issued during the hearing of a petition filed by the PTI chairman challenging the amendments in the NAB laws.
However, the three-member bench headed by the then chief moved ahead and later struck down the changes introduced by the coalition government by accepting the petition.
But Justice Shah wrote a scathing dissenting note in which he advocated the parliament’s supremacy and its powers to make or unmake laws.