Mohammad Haleem

Honourable Chief Justice Muhammad Haleem (Urdu: محمد حلیم), LL.D. (HC), HI (1 January 1925 – 11 August 2006) served as the Chief Justice of Pakistan from 1981 to 1989,^[1] the longest service of its kind in the history of the country. He was endorsed by successive regimes and has been celebrated as one of the foremost judicial authorities of South Asia. Born in Lucknow, he was the son of Barrister Muhammad Wasim, the first Advocate General of Pakistan, and the pre-independence Advocate General of Uttar Pradesh. He died in August 2006 in Karachi.

Chief Justice of Pakistan

He was the chief justice of Pakistan from 25 March 1981 to 31 December 1989

Education

B.Sc, LL.B, Lucknow University, LL.D (Honoris Causa) – Karachi University (1990).

Awards

He was awarded Hilal-i-Imtiaz in 1996 by Government of Pakistan.

Positions held

Pleader, Assistant Advocate General, Judge, High Court of Sindh, Judge, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Chief Justice of Pakistan, Chairman, Pakistan Law Commission, Chairman, Indus Water Commission, Chairman, Supreme Judicial Council, Acted as President of Pakistan on several Occasions during 1981-1984.

Publications

Work Papers on:^[2]

1. The Proper Role of the International Court of Justice in the Law of the World Eleventh Conference of the World Peace through Law, Cairo, Egypt, September 1983;
2. The Challenge of Social Justice: The Third International Conference of Appellate Judges, New Delhi, India, 5–8 March 1984;
3. Intellectual Property Issues in Pakistan: International Property Colloquium of Judges in Asia and the Pacific, held under the auspices of the World Intellectual Property Organization at Sydney (Australia), 8–12 October 1984;
4. The Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice: Twelfth Conference of The World Peace Through Law Center, West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 21–26 July 1985;
5. The Development of Deep Sea Resources: Twelfth Conference of the World Peace Through Law Center, West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 21–26 July 1985;
6. Management of Supreme Court: Lawasia Conference of the Chief Justices on Management of Courts, Penang, Malaysia, 19–22 August 1985;
7. Public Interest Litigation – Is it an Unruly Horse? Ninth Lawasia Conference, New Delhi, India, 7–12 October 1985
8. Law, Justice and Society: Fifth Pakistan Jurists Conference, Karachi, 28–30 March 1986
9. The Judiciary and the Intellectual Property System: Regional Forum of Judges organized jointly by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Association with the Law Association for Asia and the Western Pacific (LAWASIA) and with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Islamabad, 5 to 9 October 1986;
10. Court as the Guardian of the Constitution: Fourth International Conference of Appellate Judges, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20–24 April 1987;
11. Protecting and Expanding the Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice: Thirteenth Biennial World Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 6–11 September 1987;
12. Transnational Terrorism: Thirteenth Biennial World Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 6–11 September 1987;
13. Address Delivered at the Second Conference of the Chief Justices of the LAWASIA region - South East Asian and the Western Pacific Countries, Islamabad, 18–22 October 1987;
14. The Domestic Application of International Human Rights Norms: Judicial Colloquium held under the auspices of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London, at Bangalore, India, 24–26 February 1988; and
15. Permanent Sovereignty and International Responsibility: International Symposium on Legal Aspects of New International Economic Order, held at Islamabad, Pakistan, on 14 March 1989.

See also

• Chief Justices of Pakistan
• Supreme Court of Pakistan
• List of Pakistanis

References

Chief Justices of Pakistan
Abdul Rashid Muhammad Munir Muhammad Shahabuddin A.R. Cornelius S. A. Rahman Fazal Akbar Hamoodur Rahman Yaqub Ali Sheikh Anwarul Haq Mohammad Haleem Afzal Zullah Nasim Hasan Shah Saad Saud Jan Syed Sajjad Ali Shah Ajmal Mian Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui Irshad Hasan Khan Bashir Jehangiri Sheikh Riaz Ahmad Nazim Hussain Siddiqui Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (1st) Javaid Iqbal Rana Bhagwandas Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (2nd) Abdul Hameed Dogar De facto; stripped Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (3rd) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani Nasir-ul-Mulk Jawwad S. Khawaja Anwar Zaheer Jamali
Italics indicate acting officeholders