Advocate vs Chief Justice of the West Pakistan High Court — 1965 PLD 281

Citation: 1965 PLD 281

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1965 SC 281

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s):Alvin R. Cornelius, Hamoodur Rahman, Fazal-e-Akbar, Dr. Sheikh Abdul JUDGMENT Reported As: PLD 1971 Supreme Court 230 Result: Appeal dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT HAMOODUR RAHMAN, J.--This is an appeal as of right under clause 2(c) of Article 58 of the Constitution from a conviction for contempt under Article 123 of the Constitution by a Special Bench of three Judges of the High Court of West Pakistan. The appellant, who is an Advocate of the High Court of nearly 25 years' standing practising at Lyallpur, on the 13th of April 1963, sent the following telegram to the Chief Justice of the West Pakistan High Court :-- "Strongly protest against arbitrary selection Civil Judge Candidates." He followed this up by two further telegrams on the 15th of April 1963, one addressed to the Chief Justice and the other to the Chairman of the Provincial Public Service Commission, Lahore. Both of these read thus :- "One hundred members of the District Bar Association, Lyallpur, protest against arbitrary selection of Civil Judge candidates by the West Pakistan High Court and request that all the applicants should be called for interview before the Public Service Commission." On receipt of these telegrams the Chief Justice caused a copy thereof to be sent to the District and Sessions Judge, Lyallpur, with the request to furnish the High Court with a copy of the proceedings of the Bar Association, Lyallpur, leading to the issue of the said telegrams…

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