{"id":3191,"date":"2025-06-17T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:41:23","slug":"justice-babar-sattar-opposes-rule-amendments-without-full-court-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/17\/justice-babar-sattar-opposes-rule-amendments-without-full-court-approval","title":{"rendered":"Justice Babar Sattar Opposes Rule Amendments Without Full Court Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"898\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: A legal dispute has emerged in the Islamabad High Court as Justice Babar Sattar raised serious objections to recent amendments made to the court rules without convening a full court meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"898\">In a letter addressed to the acting Chief Justice and fellow judges, Justice Sattar stated that the rule changes violate Article 208 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"321\" data-end=\"898\">He argued that any amendment to the court rules requires the collective approval of all judges and that unilateral decisions undermine constitutional authority and damage the institution\u2019s credibility.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1516\"><strong data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"940\">Violation of Article 208 Highlighted<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1516\">Justice Babar Sattar expressed concern over a gazette notification regarding the \u201cIslamabad High Court Rules 2025,\u201d pointing out that it lacked formal approval from a full court meeting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1516\">He emphasized that, under the Constitution, only the Chief Justice and the full bench of judges are authorized to amend court rules.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1516\">He also referenced the Lahore High Court rules \u2014 adopted by Islamabad High Court \u2014 which do not allow delegation of this power to any single authority.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"900\" data-end=\"1516\">According to him, the amendments were made without proper legal authority and must be reversed.<\/p>\n<h3><strong data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1575\">Institutional Credibility and Employee Rights at Risk<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1982\">In his letter, Justice Sattar warned that the unauthorized changes could harm both the court\u2019s institutional reputation and the rights of its employees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1982\">He described the issue as sensitive and urged immediate reversal of the amendments to avoid further embarrassment for the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1982\">He called for transparency, constitutional adherence, and collective decision-making in all future rule revisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A legal dispute has emerged in the Islamabad High Court as Justice Babar Sattar raised serious objections to recent amendments made to the court rules without convening a full court meeting. In a letter addressed to the acting Chief Justice and fellow judges, Justice Sattar stated that the rule changes violate Article 208 of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1328,1583,1216],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-constitution","tag-islamabadhighcourt","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}