LAHORE, Aug 29: Justice Hamid Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sent petitions by 35 lawyers to the Punjab Bar Council for deciding the matter pertaining to the issuance of show-cause notices for termination of their licences.

The lawyers, belonging to the Nankana Sahib District Bar Association, had been attending conventions organised by the Punjab government during lawyers’ movement for the restoration of the chief justice of Pakistan.

The bar on April 9, 2007, suspended their membership for attending lawyers’ convention organised by the Punjab chief minister in Lahore. It also sent references against them to the PbBC for cancellation of their licences, they said, adding that following this the bar council also sent them show-cause notices for cancellation their memberships.

They said as the DBA had withdrawn its notices, the PbBC notices for termination of the licences lost meaning.

They requested that the PbBC notices be declared illegal and unconstitutional.