ISLAMABAD: Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, the senior puisne judge of the Supreme Court, has objected to a conflict of interest on the larger bench that was assembled to hear the intra-court appeal in the matter pertaining to bench powers.
“Judicial members with a conflict of interest are not permitted to serve on the bench. In his letter to the judges’ committee, Justice Shah states, “The Committee that took up the subject of CPLA No 836-5/2020 and fixed it on 27-1-2025 before the constitutional bench is composed of Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar.
The matter at hand concerns Additional Registrar (Judicial) Nazar Abbas’s incorrect case-fixing, which included a challenge to the provisions of the Customs Act 1969.
