{"id":1366,"date":"2012-07-12T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanhc.lk\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:20:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:50:34","slug":"senate-passes-contempt-of-court-bill-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes Contempt of Court Bill 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/2012\/07\/senate-passes-contempt-of-court-bill-2012\/2-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1367\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1367\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/23.jpeg\" alt=\"Senate passes Contempt of Court Bill 2012\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Senate has passed &#8220;The Contempt of Court Bill\u201a 2012&#8243;\u201a it is already passed by the National Assembly.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Senate has passed &#8220;The Contempt of Court Bill\u201a 2012&#8221;.\u00a0The bill has already been passed by the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier\u201a taking part in the debate on the Bill\u201a Leader of the Opposition in the House\u201a Ishaq Dar said it is a malafide attempt and amounts to lowering the prestige of the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haji Adeel said it is the question of supremacy and sovereignty of the Parliament. He said judiciary too committed mistakes in the past and who will penalize it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mushahid Hussain Syed said the government should learn lesson from the past and must not make person-specific legislation. He said we should avoid any kind of confrontation with any institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mir Hasil Bizenjo said they supported PPP when it introduced 18th Amendment but cannot support a flawed legislation. He said it is duty of the Supreme Court to ensure rule of law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Muzaffar Hussain Shah said the contempt of court law is necessary to remove drawbacks of the existing law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Farhatullah Babar said the legislation is not being done in haste but it is need of the hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aitzaz Ahsan and Raza Rabbani of Pakistan People&#8217;s Party also expressed their views over the Bill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Raza Rabbani said that the current situation of the country demanded political as well as judicial maturity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Law Minister Farooq H. Naek said that the constitution gives the parliament right to legislate. He said we are not against the judiciary but respect the constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PML-N senators staged a walkout against the bill in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has passed &#8220;The Contempt of Court Bill\u201a 2012&#8243;\u201a it is already passed by the National Assembly.\u00a0 The Senate has passed &#8220;The Contempt of Court Bill\u201a 2012&#8221;.\u00a0The bill has already been passed by the National Assembly. Earlier\u201a taking part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}