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| Name |
Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry |
| Father’s Name |
Chaudhry Jan Muhammad |
| Date of Birth |
12-12-1948 |
| Qualification |
B.A., LL.B. |
| Domicile |
Balochistan (Quetta) |
| N.I.C. No. |
61101-4936568-7 |
| Postal Address |
Supreme Court of Pakistan, Constitutional Avenue, Islamabad |
Professional Experience:
- Started Practice as Advocate in the year 1974.
- Enrolled as Advocate High Court in the year 1976.
- Enrolled as Advocate Supreme Court in the year 1985.
- Appointed as Advocate General Balochistan in the year 1989.
- Elevated as Addl. Judge High Court of Balochistan in the year 1990.
- Confirmed as Judge High Court of Balochistan in the year 1993.
- Appointed as Chief Justice High Court of Balochistan on 22nd April 1999.
- Elevated as Judge Supreme Court of Pakistan on 4th February 2000.
- Appointed as Chief Justice Pakistan on 30th June 2005.
Fields/Subjects of Practice as Advocated:
- Practiced as Advocate in all fields/subjects i.e. Constitutional, Criminal, Civil, Tax, Revenue, etc.
Additional Experience/Activities:
- Elected as PresidentHighCourtBar Association, Quetta.
- Elected twice as Member Bar Council.
- Besides functioning as Judge High Court of Balochistan, Quetta discharged duties as Banking Judge Special Court for Speedy Trials, Judge Customs Appellate Court as well as Company Judge.
- Appointed as Chairman Balochistan Local Council Election Authority in the year 1992 and thereafter for second term in the year 1998.
- Appointed as Chairman Provincial Review Board for the Province of Balochistan on the recommendations of Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan.
- Appointed twice as Chairman of Pakistan Red Crescent Society Balochistan by Government of Balochistan.
- Nominated by Hon’ble Chief Justice of Pakistan as Chairman, Enrolment Committee of Pakistan Bar Council.
- Appointed as Judge Incharge Supreme Court Staff Welfare Committee by the Hon’ble Chief Justice.
International visits as Chief Justice of Pakistan:
- Attended 22nd Biennial Congress on the Law of the World held in Beijing & Shanghai, China in September, 2005.
- Participated in International Conference and Showcase on Judicial Reforms held in Philippines in November, 2005.
- Visited United Kingdom in February, 2006 in connection with The UK-Pakistan Judicial Protocol on Children and Family Law.
- Visited Malaysia to deliver a Public Lecture on the topic, "The Relationship between Law and Mortality in Islamic Common Law System" in August, 2006.
- Attended, XVII World Congress of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates at Belfast, Northern Ireland in August, 2006.
- Visited India on Golden Jubilee Celebration of Indian Law Institute in November, 2006.
- Attended the Symposium on 47th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court of Turkey in April, 2009.
Awards and Honors:
He is first Pakistani to be presented with HLS (HarvardLawSchool) Medal of Freedom, which is only given to selected personalities for their contributions to freedom, justice and equality. Earlier only two other people have been awarded this honor. The first was Charles Hamilton Houston, an African American Lawyer and NAACP Litigation Director who helped play a role in dismantling the Jim Crown laws and helped train future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. Former South African President Nelson Mandela is the second.
The National Law Journal honoured Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the lawyer of the year for 2007.
- New York City Bar Honorary Membership
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York granted Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry an honorary membership in the association on Nov. 17, 2008, recognizing him as a “symbol of the movement for judicial and lawyer independence in Pakistan”
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