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HANIF AHMED BHATTI versus FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN

Section 5A [as amended] the Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Arts 199 and 25 Constitutional Requirements for Membership of the Provincial Bar Council Applicants had the power to amend the Legal Amendment and Bar Council Act 1973 in Section 5A Was increased in the The qualifying practice period ranged from 7 years to 10 years which had a negative impact on them as they are no longer eligible to participate in provincial bar council elections as the disappointment of the members and amendment ordinance disappointments. Can't work practically. The election program was already notified. That the applicants, once submitting their proposals on 25 25 2004, had obtained their right to contest the Provincial Bar Council elections which could not be taken with disappointment by the ordinance notified on 3-11 2004. That the notification issued by the Returning Officer on July 11, 2011 was illegal and had no legal effect. That the Provincial Bar Council elections shall be in accordance with the amended Legal Practitioners and Bar Council Councils Act 1973 for all seats. The question of whether the number of provincial bar council seats allocated for the district related to this amendment has been reduced, which has badly affected the applicants who are practicing lawyers in the said districts, now instead of just two members, the provincial bar The Council can select one member each. Such a reduction was made by the ordinance on reduction 11 2004; under the unlawful Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act 1973, the right to elect every two members cannot be affected as the election program was already announced. top advocate from Nawab Shah lawyer