Legal News
Fresh, primary-source-checked reporting on important judgments, court orders, legislation, amendments, rules and institutional legal developments. Older analysis remains in Articles and Judgments.
Legal developments
Pakistan should interview convicted child-sex offenders to identify offence pathways, warning signs and prevention points without weakening punishment.
Legal developments
Twelve years after 14 deaths, the Najafi Report, stalled JIT and unfinished trial expose a continuing failure of State accountability in Model Town.
High Courts
The Lahore High Court granted post-arrest bail to a prisoner with Parkinsonism, holding that infirmity is distinct from an ordinary medical-treatment plea.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court acquitted Abdul Razzaq after finding the eyewitness account, unmarked cash, call data, recoveries and confinement evidence unsafe.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held that remanded cases must proceed unless expressly stayed and ordered an eight-year-old civil suit concluded within two months.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court held that section 14A's bail bar applies to knowing illegal entry under section 14(2), not a tentative section 14(1) overstay case.
