ISLAMABAD, May 7: Former law minister Babar Awan again beseeched the Supreme Court on Monday to accept his apology and end the suspension of his licence to practise law.

A two-judge bench comprising Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and Justice Athar Saeed may frame on May 10 formal charges against Mr Awan for committing contempt of court.

In his latest application, Mr Awan requested the court to withdraw its January 17 decision of suspending his licence because a number of clients who had engaged him as their counsel in different cases were suffering.

Mr Awan is facing the contempt charge for his media jibe against the judiciary. He had severely criticised the apex court at a press conference on Dec 1 last year soon after it had ordered an inquiry into the memo scandal by Tariq Khosa, a former director general of the Federal Investigation Agency, and attacked a sitting SC judge for being a brother of Mr Khosa.

On April 10, he formerly tendered an apology to the Supreme Court, especially to Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, brother of Tariq Khosa, for his utterances against the judiciary.

Expressing sincere regrets for his utterances, Mr Awan said in the application that whatever he had stated at the press conference was unintentional and inadvertent and that he was offering an unconditional apology once again.

He said he had resigned from the federal cabinet only to represent the government in the presidential reference on revisiting the murder trial of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and to uphold the dignity of the court and honour of the bar associations.