Judicial power play | The Express Tribune
Judicial power play The writer is a lawyer, formerly practising and teaching law in Lahore, and currently based in Singapore. He holds an LLM from New York University where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He tweets @HNiaziii When the sun sets on revolutionary uprisings, how the victors use their newfound power leaves a permanent imprint on the future. Do they allow limitations to be saddled onto themselves; sacrificing power to uphold the ideal of the rule of law? Or do they seize upon their popularity to expand their authority in new directions? The lawyers’ movement uprooted a dictators...