SINDH BAR COUNCIL vs State S — 2024 PLC(CS) 318 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2024 PLC(CS) 318 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2024
Reporter: PLC
Parties: SINDH BAR COUNCIL vs State S
Subject matter: Constitutional
Provisions referred to: S. 53---

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Judgment text as reported

SINDH BAR COUNCIL VS State S.53---appointment of Chairman and Members Qualifications Rules, 2016, R.3(1)---Constitution of Pakistan, art.199---Extension of tenure of the Chairman appointed under R.3(1) of the appointment of Chairman and Members Qualifications Rules, 2016, assailing of---Writ of quo-warranto---Maintainability---Contention of the petitioners (Sindh Bar Council and several of office-bearers) was that the constitutional petition was in the nature of quo-warranto, hence there was no requirement that the same be instituted by or on behalf of an aggrieved person---Held, that the argument regarding quo-warranto was misconceived, as the incumbent Chairman's appointment was in accord with R.3(1), as it stood, and the petitioners could not seek to supplant that existing qualification so as to then test the appointment with a yardstick that they considered to be better suited---Constitutional petition, being meritless, was dismissed, in circumstances.

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