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Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976--------Ch. XII---Canons of Professional Conduct and Etiquette of Advocates--­Counsel and client---Professional misconduct---Concealment of fact---Counsel for his personal gain through concealment of pendency of a petition filed a fresh petition on the same subject---Effect---Counsel, a member of the Bar, having acted in derogation to all norms of morality, good conduct and fair practice his conduct was deprecated by High Court---Matter was, however, dropped by High Court on tendering apology by counsel with undertaking that he would not repeat such conduct again. ORDER Rasheed-ul-Hassan, one of the appellants in the present I.C.A. on the direction of the Court while appearing in person states that during the pendency of Writ Petition No.7047 of 1997, he contacted the learned counsel namely Mr. Tariq Zulfiqar Ahmad Chaudhry, Advocate, for advice, who without his instructions filed the Writ Petition No.8741 of 1997 with the understanding that the same was in his benefit. He further states that after obtaining a favourable order, the earlier Writ Petition No.7047 of 1997 was withdrawn on the instructions of the learned counsel on 23-2-1998. He states that the said writ petition was not filed by him through concealment of the pendency of earlier petition and that this all…

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