WHEN PEN SWALLOW’S JUSTICE: A STUDY ON RECTIFICATION OF LAWS: ERROR FREE PUBLICATION OF LAWS OF PAKISTAN
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https://doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v3i4.305Abstract
The Supreme Court of Pakistan took Suo moto action and passed an order on 3rd March, 2015 directing that legislation shall be made for the purpose of regulating the publication of law books and keeping a strict eye on the sale of inaccurate law book publically, as it led to adverse consequences. In August, 2015 Supreme Court of Pakistan passed an order directing that notices be issued to Pakistan Bar Council, Provincial Bar Councils as well as Federal Law Ministry and Provincial Law Departments so that the matter of error in publication of law books can be adequately addressed and this serious issue can be properly attended. The committee of government bodies convened its meetings on 21.11.2014 & 01.12.2014. It was unanimously of the view that at present no regulatory framework for error free publication of either primary or delegated legislation is available to cater for present issue. The committee, therefore, recommended establishing a separate organization/autonomous body/board or directorate to ensure error free publication of statutes in books and on websites. Extent of jurisdiction Text of books or websites/electronic publication would require certification where the entire Statutes/ Act/ Ordinance/ Rules or Regulations have been reproduced after a careful comparison with its authentic and updated version. Publication of law book in Pakistan was a huge disaster because they contained mistakes. The current standards of the Law publications have been highly affected by the inattentiveness of the government and private publishing bodies. The Ministry of law and justice has been advised by the Supreme Court of Pakistan to form a criterion for restriction of cause of error in Law books. In persons thereof a cell namely “The Publication of laws of Pakistan” cell was established by the Ministry under the Ordinance, the Ordinance later on was converted into the Act of the Parliament “The Publication of Laws of Pakistan Act, 2016”. Instead of establishing a cell under the supervision and control of Ministry of law and justice it would have been far batter if an independent commission would have established for the realization of purpose.
Keywords: Supreme Court, Bar Councils, Sou moto, Laws, Ministry and Pakistan.
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