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Client AlertArbitration law reform: status of the new arbitration billA Model Law-based bill to replace the Arbitration Act 1940 is before Parliament — draft today's clauses to work under both the old law and the new.25 June 2026 · 3 min read
BriefingInjunctions in commercial disputes: the real law of interim reliefPrima facie case, balance of convenience, irreparable loss — what each limb actually requires, and the transactions Pakistani courts will not stop.25 June 2026 · 5 min read
PerspectiveSettlement is a verdict you write yourselfA judgment is a verdict written by a stranger, years from now. A settlement is one you draft today — if you draft it like a decree.16 June 2026 · 5 min read
BriefingBail in white-collar matters: the law after the recent superior-court trilogyThree strands of superior-court authority now govern bail in financial cases: bail as the rule outside the prohibitory clause, documentary cases as cases of further inquiry, and detention that cannot be used as punishment.28 May 2026 · 5 min read
PerspectiveArbitration's promise and Pakistan's opportunityPakistan enforces foreign awards under a statute from 2011 and domestic ones under a statute from 1940. Closing that gap is the opportunity.18 May 2026 · 5 min read
The First ReadingThe First Reading — No. 1Ten developments in one sitting: where constitutional challenges now go, NAB references after the restored amendments, PECA's new machinery, and the FBR's arrest powers.5 May 2026 · 4 min read
PerspectiveWhat Jinnah's Lincoln's Inn training still teaches Pakistani advocatesBefore he was the founder, he was a barrister: prepared, brief, and unbending. The bar he left behind still measures itself against him.21 April 2026 · 5 min read
PerspectiveThe junior's chair: how advocates are actually madeAdvocates are made in the second chair — carrying the record, watching the senior, and learning everything the rulebook cannot write down.9 April 2026 · 4 min read
Client AlertLimitation and court-fee changes: recalibrate your deadlinesProvincial finance acts have revised court-fee schedules — and a fee deficit does not stop the limitation clock.20 March 2026 · 3 min read
BriefingThe 26th Constitutional Amendment, eighteen months on: what actually changed for litigantsForum, relief and bench: the practical consequences for anyone litigating constitutional questions since October 2024 — and how the 27th Amendment moved the ground again.10 March 2026 · 5 min read
BriefingEnforcing foreign arbitral awards in Pakistan: the 2011 Act in practiceThe 2011 Act gives award creditors a narrow, fast lane through the High Courts. Here is how the lane runs — and where it slows.24 February 2026 · 5 min read
PerspectiveThe presumption of innocence is a practice, not a phraseAn accused can lose his passport, his accounts, and his name before a single witness is sworn. Keeping the presumption alive is daily work.17 February 2026 · 4 min read
Client AlertNew e-filing rules in the High Courts: what changes for filingsElectronic filing is moving from pilot to rule in the High Courts — the portal changes the mechanics, not the deadlines.14 February 2026 · 3 min read
PerspectiveThe ethics of the white-collar defense: answering the dinner-party questionHow we answer the question every defense lawyer is asked at dinner: how can you act for people accused of that?12 February 2026 · 4 min read
PerspectiveOn reading judgments aloud: what oral tradition preservesWhy we still read judgments out loud in chambers — and what the ear catches that the eye lets pass.20 January 2026 · 4 min read

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