Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 82 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5112-3427-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Supreme Court Bar Association is a legal body comprising the supreme court lawyers in Pakistan. It is currently headed by Asma Jahangir. Ms. Jahangir has been a leading human rights activist and lawyer in South Asia. When she was 18 years old she was a petitioner in the Asma Jilani case which was a famous constitutional case upholding the rule of law in Pakistan at the time of a military dictatorship. Since then she has been actively participating in a struggle to end dictatorships and uphold the rule of law in Pakistan. She has defended underprivileged women, minorities and children. In the sphere of bonded labour she helped to set an important judicial precedent in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. She was both house arrested and imprisoned in 1984 when she participated in protests against the infamous Hadood Ordinances introduced by the military dictator Zia-ul-Haq. She also participated in the lawyers struggle for the rule of law and...