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Lahore High Court Sindh High Court A Corner View of the Balochistan High Court Building, Quetta, Pakistan. There is a high court for the Islamabad Capital Territory and four provincial high courts. A high court is the principal court of its province. [1] The Lahore High Court in Lahore, Punjab, [10] with circuit benches at Bahawalpur, Multan ...
The Lahore High Court (Urdu: عدالتِ عالیہ لاہور) is a provincial court house based in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established as a high court on 21 March 1882. [ 1 ] The Lahore High Court has jurisdiction over the province of Punjab .
The Supreme Court Museum serves as an invaluable repository for preserving the Judicial History of Post and pre-Independence era for future generation.: 1–2 [86] The Museum's collections include fine arts, oral histories, photographs, personal belongings of judges and chief justices and an archival collection of rare documents.: 2 [86] These ...
As the province of West Pakistan was dissolved in 1970, three high courts were established: Lahore High Court, Peshawar High Court, and Sind and Balochistan High Court (with its principal seat at Karachi). [6] In 1976 the Sindh and Balochistan High Court was split into the High Court of Sind (Karachi) and the High Court of Balochistan (Quetta). [7]
Up to 13 justices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan have refused to take an oath under the PCO. Yesterday morning, the judges of the Supreme Court were stopped as they sought to carry out their judicial duty, including the hearing of a case by the full court regarding the PCO, about which the restraining order had been passed.
The term is in the Urdu: Sudder signifies literally "the breast"; the fore-court of a house; the chief seat of government, contradistinguished from Mofussil, or interior of the country; the presidency. [4] Dewan is an ancient Persian word which was adopted throughout the Islamic world, meaning a powerful government official, minister or ruler. [5]
The Pakistan Penal Code (Urdu: مجموعہ تعزیرات پاکستان; Majmū'ah-yi ta'zīrāt-i Pākistān), abbreviated as PPC, is a penal code for all offences charged in Pakistan. It was originally prepared by Lord Macaulay with a great consultation in 1860 on behalf of the Government of British India as the Indian Penal Code.
The high criminal court, like its counterpart for civil jurisdiction — the Sadr Diwani Adalat - was abolished after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (known by the British as "the Mutiny"), and its powers and jurisdiction were transferred to new high courts of judicature set up by the Indian High Courts Act of 1861.