Dawn-ePaper | May 23, 2023 | Probing the leaks

Tribune ePaper: Business News Paper, ePaper Online DIVIDE IN JUDICIARY

Tribune ePaper: Business News Paper, ePaper Online Contempt law

Dawn-ePaper | May 29, 2023 | A divided judiciary exacerbates national disharmony

 `TheSupreme Court(Review of Judgements

and Order) Act 2023`.
the new law is aimed at facilitating and strengthening the Supreme Court in
the exercise of its powers to review its judgements.
The act asked to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court as expressly
provided under Article 188 of the Constitution, which empowers the apex
court to review any judgement and to ensure the fundamental right to justice
by providing for meaningful review of judgments and orders passed by the
Supreme Court in the exercise of its original jurisdiction underArticle 184(3).
Under Section 2 of the Act,
the scope of the review, on both facts and law, will be the same as an appeal
under Article 185 of the Constitution.
Section 3 says that a review petition will be heard by a bench larger than the
bench which passed the original judgement or the order.
Section 4 empowers the petitioner filing review to appoint any advocate of
the Supreme Court of their choice for the review petition.

Section 5 says that the right to file a review petition will also be available to
an aggrieved person against whom an order has been made under Article
184(3) of the Constitution prior to the commencement of this Act.
Section 6 says the review petition will be filed within 60 days of the passing
of the original order
ECP empowered to announce poll date (tribune.com.pk)

Amendments were made to give authority to ECP to announce the date of

elections on its own.

57(1) 58 of 2017 empowered ECP to announce date on its own