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LAHORE, April 1: The Lahore High Court Bar Association members unanimously resolved on Monday to follow policy decisions taken by the Bar recently.
At a general house meeting, the Bar members expressed displeasure over press statements of some members, deviating from the policy decisions of all the Bar associations of the province against the LFO and three-year extension in the retirement age of the superior court judges.
Punjab Bar Council vice-chairman Muhammad Arif Chaudhry last week withdrew the PBC’s decision to boycott the Supreme Court judges, who had benefited from the extension. He also blasted the LHCBA president for having allegedly adopted ‘frivolous’ resolutions on the LFO without obtaining approval of the house.
The LHCBA members, during the meeting, called such statements a conspiracy to divide the Bar on the leading issues, saying they would back LHCBA President Hafiz Abdul Rahman Ansari for taking a principle stand against the LFO and other related issues.
While speaking on the occasion, the LHCBA president alleged that some ‘unwise’ Bar members were trying to tarnish its image at the behest of establishment, and had become an instrument in the hands of the pro-LFO political parties.
Mr Ansari claimed that all the resolutions adopted for the restoration of the 1973 Constitution, freedom of press, abrogation of the LFO and three-year extension in the retirement age of the judges were duly approved by the Bar’s general house.
COMMITTEE: The LHCBA president constituted an eight-member committee to look into the matter regarding service of legal notice on the lawyers to vacate 15-B/C Fane Road within 10 days.
Advocate Ahmad Saeed Kirmani moved a resolution in the house, saying that the lawyers running their offices at 15-B/C since 1974 had been asked to vacate the place on the grounds that they had acquired such land illegally. He sought the LHCBA’s assistance in this regard.
The committee, comprising Hafiz Abdul Rahman Ansari, Ahmad Saeed Kirmani, Malik Saeed Hassan, Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf Wahla, Hamid Khan, Muhammad Saeed Ansari, Muhammad Ashraf Chaudhry and Khawar Ikram Bhatti, would talk to the authorities concerned to resolve the matter.
