Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed took oath on Thursday as Chief Justice (CJ) of Lahore High Court (LHC) and assumed charge. Unless elevated to the Supreme Court, he will retire on August 27, 2016.
Governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa administered the oath to Justice Saeed. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and many other dignitaries were present at the Governor’s House to attend the ceremony.
On his arrival at the LHC, Justice Saeed was given a guard of honor. Later lawyer leaders congratulated him for being elevated to the office of the CJ.
The CJ plans to visit the Lahore High Court Bar Association on Friday (today) to formally meet bar members, which is a tradition.
Justice Saeed was born in Rawalpindi on August 28, 1954 and went to school in the same city. The chief justice sat for his Senior Cambridge from St Mary’s Academy in 1970. He graduated from Sir Syed College, Rawalpindi in 1974.
He then joined the Punjab University Law College, Lahore and received his LLB in 1978 and on completion of the apprenticeship was enrolled as an advocate the same year.
After working in various chambers, Justice Saeed started his independent practice in Lahore in 1980 and was enrolled as an advocate of the Lahore High Court in 1981 and subsequently as an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
He was appointed as a legal advisor to the Lahore Development Authority in 1996.
The Ehtesab Bureau appointed him as a Special Prosecutor in 1997. In 2000, he was appointed as National Accountability Bureau deputy prosecutor general for a period of one year. The following year he was appointed as a NAB prosecutor special.
He taught for three years at Quaid-i-Azam Law College.
Justice Saeed was appointed as an additional judge of the LHC on January 12, 2004, and took oath on confirmation as a judge of the LHC on January 12, 2005.
In June 2006, he was nominated to serve on the National College of Arts board of governors.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2011.
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