No one is above the law: CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry

Appreciates media, civil society for supporting independent judiciary.


Our Correspondent December 09, 2012

ISLAMABAD:


Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Saturday that there was no immunity for anyone “come what may,” adding that “all and sundry” had to follow the rule of law.


Addressing an enrolment ceremony of new Supreme Court lawyers, Justice Chaudhry said the independent judiciary, duly supported by the media and civil society, has rendered landmark judgments on the basis of one component: no one is above the law.

The top judge observed that the country witnessed unprecedented changes in the wake of the lawyers’ movement, which resulted in a healthy debate about the need to change old habits.

It is high time that this sea of change in the country’s constitutional and political history was accepted by all “without any ifs and buts,” he said.

He further said that this is a new Pakistan where old structures are crumbling and past demons are being exterminated one by one.

“Being a lawyer of the apex court of the country, it is your added responsibility to fully make yourself well-versed with the challenges being faced by both the bench and the bar in view of raised expectations of people,” the chief justice told the assembly of lawyers.

Unless and until the lawyers are committed to their job, the output of the institution cannot sustain improvement over a period of time, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 9th, 2012.

COMMENTS (3)

Tahir Ali | 11 years ago | Reply

Mockery of justice - NRO case: no outcome, memo-gate: no outcome, missing persons: no outcome, ephedrine case: no outcome, Asghar Khan case: no outcome, Arsalan case: no outcome: no politician behind the bars despite unprecedented corruption, only 4% terrorists convicted so far, target killers at large - yet nobody is above the law - fooling the masses.

Syed | 11 years ago | Reply

Very rightly said.But the execution and implimentation on court decissions is missing. Present political system will not go as per the court and legal verdicts, as the whole governing system is based on rigging, swindling money, purchasing constituancies, selling power and bargaining. As a common citizen, I fail to understand, what good a fine court judgement would do, if it is not implimented?

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