LONDON: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has been ordered by three Lord Justices of the UK Court of Appeal to pay £65000, or about Rs23,333,855 or Rs23.3 million, to MQM founder Altaf Hussain before July 30, 2024, in legal expenses.
Hussain defeated his erstwhile MQM-P followers at the Court of Appeal after they broke away from him in August 2016.
Following a unanimous ruling by three judges to accept Hussain’s appeal and reverse a previous ruling in favor of MQM-P, the Court of Appeal’s Civil Division issued an order directing MQM-P to contribute £65000 toward the appeal’s costs.
When the defendants first fight such applications or petitions, the courts typically force the losing party to make these payments to the claimants or winning side.
Hussain was ordered to deposit £77,760 after the single bench judge ruled against him, and the court has now allowed him to transfer the money into his attorney’s account.
Hussain will shortly file a claim in court against MQM-P for the legal expenses paid during the first phase of the trial before Insolvency and Companies Judge Jones, according to MQM spokesperson Mustafa Azizabadi, who spoke with News.
