He said due to the conflict of interest he had recused himself from defending a presidential reference against Justice Isa earlier in 2020. Referring to the Supreme Court’s decision of quashing a presidential reference against Justice Isa, the AGP said he believed that as a lawyer not as AGP the top court’s judgement should be accepted in “letter and spirit”. “Whether the curative review is maintainable or not, I will not comment as it is pending in the court,” he added. Read Newly-appointed AGP recuses himself from representing govt in Justice Isa caseThe AGP said the two major principles of justice are accountability and transparency of judges and the second was the independence of judiciary. He suggested that the Supreme Court full meeting should be summoned to set some principle for exercising Articles related to the public interest.

Source: The Express Tribune October 09, 2021 05:03 UTC