Justice Mansoor Ali Shah participated in the first full court session of the Supreme Court in Islamabad on Monday presided over by the new Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi through a video link from Saudi Arabia.
The Supreme Court The full court session of Pakistan, in which all of the Supreme Court Judges attended, approved the Case Management Plan prepared by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah in 2023 for speedy disposal of cases.
According to the announcement of the full court meeting, while speaking in the meeting, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah suggested planning for one month, three months and six months in order to dispose of the cases quickly.
According to the announcement, 59 thousand 191 cases are currently pending before the Supreme Court.
The meeting decided to start implementing the one-month plan suggested by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.
The statement said that ‘according to the plan, information technology will be used to deal with the cases and apart from setting clear criteria, the cases will be divided into different categories.’
The announcement further stated that ‘under the plan, special benches consisting of two and three judges will be constituted for criminal and civil cases.’
According to the statement, other judges of the Supreme Court also presented their suggestions during the full court session.
In the announcement issued by the Supreme Court, it was stated that the next full court session of the Supreme Court will be held on December 2.
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Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, who is currently in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, did not attend the farewell reception held on October 25 for former Chief Justice Justice Qazi Faiz Isa. However, he must have written a strong letter against them.
Senior judges Justice Ayesha Malik, Athar Minullah and Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmed Khan also did not participate in the reference.
The former Chief Justice of Pakistan retired from office on October 25 and Justice Yahya Afridi, the third most senior judge in the Supreme Court in terms of seniority, took oath as the new Chief Justice on October 26.
After the retirement of Justice (retd) Qazi Faiz Isa, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah’s name was first and Justice Muneeb Akhtar’s name was second on the seniority list of Supreme Court judges. But the third most senior judge, Justice Yahya Afridi, got the post of Chief Justice on the basis of nomination by the Parliament.
This became possible recently due to the 26th Amendment to the 1973 Constitution by the Pakistani Parliament.
By changing the method of appointment of the Chief Justice of Pakistan under the 26th Amendment, this prerogative has been given to a 12-member special parliamentary committee, which recommends the name of one of the first three senior-most judges of the Supreme Court for the Chief Justice. will do
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