Pakistan: ICJ concludes high-level mission to examine the independence of the judiciary since the lawyers’ movement

Pakistan: ICJ concludes high-level mission to examine the independence of the judiciary since the lawyers’ movement

The ICJ ended its six-day High-Level Mission to Pakistan today after studying the role of the judiciary and the separation of powers.

The High-Level Mission, consisting of Judge Stefan Trechsel (Chair) and Graham Leung, visited Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad between September 7-8 and September 12-15, 2011.  The Mission was a follow up to an earlier ICJ Mission which took place in 2007during the height of the constitutional crisis that was occurring at the time.

Pakistan-independence of the judiciary since the lawyers`movement-web story-2011 (full text, PDF)

Regional legal consultative meeting on the SADC tribunal review process

Regional legal consultative meeting on the SADC tribunal review process

SADC Tribunal: the Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will continue to have pervasive effects on human rights and the rule of law in the SADC region.

This is despite the advice of the World Trade Institute Advisors (WTIA) and the finding of the SADC Committee of Ministers of Justice/Attorneys-General that the Protocol on the Tribunal took effect through its incorporation into the Treaty by the adoption of the Agreement Amending the Treaty in August 2001; that the effectiveness of both the Protocol and the Agreement Amending the Treaty in August 2001 did not require ratification; and that the SADC Tribunal was legally constituted, and its decisions are binding on all SADC Member States, the SADC,

Regional legal consultative meeting-events-2011 (full text, PDF)

Conference synopsis-event-2011 (full text, PDF)

The West African Symposium on the enforcement of judicial decisions from the West African Community Court of Justice

The West African Symposium on the enforcement of judicial decisions from the West African Community Court of Justice

The ECOWAS Court has played a commendable role in upholding human rights and the rule of law and in imposing remedies where violations have occurred.

However, its much applauded judgements and pronouncements has been followed by poor state compliance and a gap of effective implementation or enforcement measures. Failure to move from good judgements to effective implementation or enforcement thereof has continued to seriously hamper the effectiveness of the ECOWAS Court and to lessen public confidence in its role as a custodian of the rule of law and human rights in the West African sub-region.

In view of this, it is worth bringing together legal and human rights practitioners, academics and activists from West Africa to deliberate on mechanisms and strategies for an effective implementation and enforcement of judicial decisions from the ECOWAS Court. The symposium will be held in Dakar, Senegal, on 6- 7 June 2011.

Learning from positive and negative experiences from other African sub-regional courts, the discussions will focus on a wide range of topics, identify the role of sub-regional lawyers and human rights activists and put in place strategies for their active involvement in the effective implementation and enforcement of judicial decisions from the ECOWAS Court.

West Africa-judical decisions ECOWAS Court concept note-events-2011-eng (concept notes in English, PDF)

West Africa-judicial decisions ECOWAS Court programme-events-2011-eng (programme in English, PDF)

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