19891989
Advocate of the Supreme Court, at 35
Admitted to plead before the country’s highest court while the leading litigators of the day were a decade or more his senior.
مخدوم علی خان
Senior AdvocateSupreme Court of Pakistan
Former Attorney Generalfor Pakistan
BarristerLincoln’s Inn
Counsel in the cases that decided who may dissolve a legislature, what a bank may charge, and how far the state may reach into the press.
Constitutional litigation before the Supreme Court of Pakistan, high-value commercial disputes and international arbitration.
Admitted to the Supreme Court at 35. Invited to the roll of Senior Advocates in 2001, the second youngest lawyer in the country’s history.
آئینِ پاکستان
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
1973. The text at the centre of his practice: dissolution, fundamental rights and the limits of state power, argued before the Supreme Court.
A career at the highest Bar
Four decades in Pakistan’s apex court, the office of Attorney General, and international arbitration.
198920012001
Invited to the roll of Senior Advocates
Signed the roll at the Supreme Court’s invitation, the second youngest lawyer in Pakistan’s history to do so, after Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada.
Until 2007Until 2007
Attorney General for Pakistan
Represented the Federation before the Supreme Court and chaired the Pakistan Bar Council, until his resignation in 2007.
20082008
Member, LCIA Court
Appointed to the court of the London Court of International Arbitration for a five-year term.
TodayToday
Senior Advocate in practice
Leading matters before the Supreme Court, the High Courts and international tribunals from Fazle Ghani Advocates. Earlier in his career he lectured in law at Keele University.
Landmark cases
Matters that shaped constitutional and financial law in Pakistan.
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Restoration of the Balochistan Assembly
Appeared for Nawab Akbar Bugti after the Provincial Assembly was dismissed.
First lawyer in Pakistan to secure the restoration of a dissolved legislature.
Supreme Court of Pakistan
The presidential dissolution cases
Appeared for President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and President Farooq Leghari.
Counsel on the dissolution question from both sides of the bench.
Supreme Court of Pakistan, 1999
Jang Group v. Government of Pakistan
Constitutional petition for the Jang Group, alongside Abid Hasan Minto and Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada.
Petition succeeded against the Government.
Review jurisdiction
The riba review
As Attorney General, sought review of the judgment declaring bank interest un-Islamic.
Judgment overturned on review.
Supreme Court & Supreme Judicial Council
Steel Mills and the Chief Justice reference
On court notice in the Pakistan Steel Mills case and in the reference against the Chief Justice of Pakistan.
Engaged in two defining institutional matters of the decade.
Constitution Committee
Drafting the bill
One of three members of the Constitution Committee, with former Law Minister Zahid Hamid.
Reported to have personally drafted the bill.
Areas of practice
Where four decades of advocacy run deepest.
Challenges to the dissolution of assemblies, fundamental rights petitions and questions of state power. He has argued for a dismissed provincial assembly and for two Presidents defending dissolution orders.
Financial regulation and Islamic finance disputes, including the review of the riba judgment, one of the most consequential financial-law matters argued before the Supreme Court.
High-value commercial disputes before the Supreme Court and the High Courts, argued alongside his constitutional work.
Counsel before international arbitral tribunals. His 2008 appointment to the LCIA Court placed him inside one of the world’s leading arbitral institutions.
Constitutional protection for the press against executive action, including the Jang Group’s successful 1999 petition.
Advice on constitutional and statutory reform. A member of the three-person Constitution Committee, reported to have drafted its bill.
Second youngest in the history of the Supreme Court’s roll of Senior Advocates.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan invited him to sign the roll in 2001. Only Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada had received the recognition younger.
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