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Jawwad Sajjad Khawaja ( Urdu: جواد ایس خواجہ; born 10 September 1950), known professionally as Jawwad S. Khawaja, is a Pakistani jurist, and former professor of law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was nominated for the position by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 17 ...
May 4, 2017 · 1. BIOGRAPHY OF JUSTICE JAWWAD S. KHAWAJA. Mr. Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja was born on 10th September 1950, in Wazirabad, District Gujranwala. He did his graduation in Arts in the year 1971 from FC College, Lahore and LL.B from the Punjab University Law College, Lahore in 1973. He then obtained an LL.M degree from the University of California ...
Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, who earned his LL.M. from Berkeley Law in 1975, has been appointed to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Khawaja served on the Lahore High Court for eight years before resigning in protest during Pakistan’s 2007 constitutional crisis. He then joined the Lahore University of Management Science faculty as head of its Law ...
Jawwad S. Khawaja v. Federation of Pakistan, PLD 2024 SC 337 (commonly referred to as the military courts case ), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of Pakistan in which it was held that the Constitution of Pakistan does not allow for the court-martial of civilians. The case concerned the constitutionality of military courts set up to ...
Chief Justice Jawwad S Khawaja inspired dread. If indeed he could see into men’s souls, he would see only the plagues in them. Judicial activism sounds like a cliché now, but by the time Justice Khawaja stepped down as the chief justice, scores of sacred cows had been thumped: real estate barons, Arab princes, elected prime ministers, the security establishment, the bar associations, even the old ghosts of the Raj.
Jun 21, 2023 · Justice (retd) Jawwad S Khawaja has always opposed trial of civilian by military courts ... Former CJP Jawad S Khawaja has approached the top court against the trial of civilians in military ...
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Jawwad Sajjad Khawaja, known professionally as Jawwad S. Khawaja, is a Pakistani jurist, and former professor of law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was nominated for the position by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 17 August 2015, and approved to take office by President Mamnoon Hussain on the same day.
