The Committee of Constitutional Benches in the Supreme Court has decided to appoint cases before the Constitutional Bench, the Constitutional Benches will start hearing from November 14.
A meeting of the Committee of Constitutional Benches was held in the Supreme Court, according to sources, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar participated in the meeting on telephone.
In the meeting, it was decided to appoint the cases before the constitutional bench, the sources say that the constitutional benches will start the hearing from November 14.
It should be noted that a meeting of the Constitutional Benches Committee was also held yesterday in which a briefing was given regarding constitutional cases including fundamental rights cases and the current procedure and proposed future action plan regarding constitutional cases were also presented.
In the meeting, it was decided to color-code the cases under Article 191 (A) while Senior Research Officer Mazhar Ali Khan was assigned the task of scrutiny of the cases under Article 199.
It was decided in the meeting yesterday that the appointment, formation of constitutional benches and issuance of the roster for the hearing of constitutional cases will be done by a committee consisting of the head of the constitutional benches and 2 senior judges.
Earlier on November 5, a 7-member constitutional bench headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan was constituted in the Judicial Commission of Pakistan meeting presided over by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi.
The first meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan was held in the light of the 26th Amendment, which considered the nomination of judges to the Constitution Benches.
7 members of the 12-member commission voted in support of Justice Aminuddin’s appointment while 5 members voted against it.
It was stated in the statement that the Chief Justice had suggested the determination of a specific period for the constitution bench. During the meeting, voting was done on the issue of formation of the constitution bench. 7 out of 12 members of the commission were in favor of a 7-member constitution bench. I voted.
