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Nawaz, Tareen may benefit, as SC review law notified

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ISLAMABAD: A gazette notification of the Supreme Court Review of Judgments and Orders Bill 2023 has been issued. President Arif Alvi had approved the new law on Friday.

Under the new law, an appeal could be filed against the court decisions in cases under Article 184(3). The law now applies to past verdicts as well.

Legal experts say that now PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and Jahangir Tareen will also be able to exercise the right of appeal against their lifetime disqualifications within 60 days.

Legal expert Kamran Murtaza says the law will benefit everyone equally.

“Anyone can take one-time benefit under the law. Even if that time has passed, a person can say that person A was given the benefit today, the same thing had happened to me yesterday. Otherwise it will be discrimination and Article 25 will be violated,” he added.

The law further says the appeals will be heard by a bench larger than the adjudicating bench.

Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan has submitted a copy and notification of the law to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court will now hear appeals in the cases under Article 184(3).

Earlier today, Attorney General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan told the chief justice of Pakistan that the president had assented to the review of judgments bill, and now it had turned into a law.

As per the law, he added, a review petition could only be heard by a larger bench, and raised objections to the three-judge panel hearing the case.

The AGP made these remarks while hearing the Election Commission of Pakistan’s plea asking the top court to revisit its April 4 order of holding elections to the Punjab Assembly on May 14.

A three-member bench headed by CJP Umar Ata Bandial and comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsan and Justice Munib Akhtar was hearing the case.

  • Internews Pakistan is an Islamabad-based news agency established in 1997.

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