Abstract
General Musharraf suspended Chief Justice (CJ) Chaudhry on the
charges of corruption and misuse of authority. This was the start of
protest movement by the lawyer community for restoration of CJ, in
turn for the independence of judiciary. The Lawyers’s Movement (LM)
was later joined by all factions of civil society especially in urban areas
almost paralysing social and economic activities. After being restored,
CJ Chaudhry took a number of suo-moto actions in public matters and
declared PCO and NRO as unconstitutional. It was a start of new era
of judicial-activism setting the new patterns of executive-judiciary
relationship. This paper focuses on how social groups started a
movement against a military dictator and what were the results of
judicial-activism on the political scenario of Pakistan. How did a
social movement shape the pattern of executive-judiciary relations in
the long run and whether these patterns continued under civilian
governments? It also identifies the consequences that created
institutional imbalance and partially paused the working of two
eminent government institutions.
Samina Yasmeen, Amna Mahmood. (2019) Lawyers’ Movement And Executive-judiciary Relations In Pakistan, Pakistan , Volume 55, Issue 1.
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