Law: Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973

Section: 5 , 10 , 199

Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act (XXXV of 1973)---

---Ss. 5 & 10---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition--Provincial Bar Council, actions of---Petitioner was aggrieved of subscription of General Fund and Benevolent Fund on the plea of exorbitant---Validity---Other than Advocate General of the Province who was ex-officio member and chairman of Punjab Bar Council, nothing in Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 suggested that any administrative or financial control was exercised by Federal or Provincial Government over the affairs of Punjab Bar Council---Punjab Bar Council was not performing any function in connection with affairs of Federation or Province or a local authority---For the purpose of maintainability of Constitutional petition, status of Punjab Bar Council was to be that of a status of Pakistan Bar Council---Punjab Bar Council was an autonomous private body without any government control, though constituted under Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973---High Court declined to interfere in the matter as Constitutional petition against Punjab Bar Council was not maintainable--Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

Syed Iqbal Hussain Shah Gillani v. Pakistan Bar Council through Secretary, Supreme Court Bar Building, Islamabad and others 2021 SCMR 425; Mirza Muhammad Nazakat Baig v. Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Ministry of Law and Justice, Islamabad and another 2020 SCMR 631 and Sardar Qurban Ali Dogar v. Pakistan Bar Council and others (Writ Petition No.228 of 2022) rel.