The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated...
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Gohar Ali Khan (category 21st-century Pakistani lawyers)
As an attorney, he notably participated in the Lawyers' Movement in 2007, a popular mass protest movement against the unconstitutional suspension of Chief...
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Labor movement Landless Peoples Movement (South Africa) Landless Workers' Movement (MST), the landless workers' movement in Brazil Lawyers' Movement in Pakistan...
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lawyer (simplified Chinese: 赤脚律师; traditional Chinese: 赤腳律師; pinyin: chìjiǎo lǜshī) is a self-taught legal activist in China. Many barefoot lawyers are...
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prevent the lawyers from reaching the federal capital, Islamabad. Workers of the main political parties in opposition and the lawyers' movement as well as...
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the opposition. Neither side acknowledged this role, however, until lawyers' movement leader Aitezaz Ahsan publicly admitted Kayani's role. There were mass...
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founding partner of Afridi, Shah & Minallah, and was involved in the Lawyers' Movement of 2007 seeking restoration of the judiciary. He was elevated to a...
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Athar Minallah (category Pakistani lawyers)
2022. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer by profession and played an active part in the Lawyers' Movement which was backed by former Prime Minister...
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The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is a progressive public interest association of lawyers, law students, paralegals, jailhouse lawyers, law collective members...
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each term). He is also head of Professional group of Lawyers, which is the largest group in Bar/Lawyers politics of Pakistan. He is the senior partner of...
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suspension evoked a nationwide popular mass protest movement led by lawyers, known as the Lawyers' Movement and eventually culminated with the Pakistan Long...
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2019 Azadi March Pakistan National Alliance Movement for the Restoration of Democracy Lawyers' Movement Dawn (9 November 2020). "PDM to work on fresh...
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Court of Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association Judicial activism (Lawyers' movement) Kumar, Raj, ed. (2003). Essays on Legal Systems in India. New Delhi:...
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Sher (January 5, 2021). "Lawyers' Movement For The Renaissance Of The Independent Judiciary In Pakistan". Lawyers' Movement for the Renaissance of the...
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resigned from various posts like teachers, lawyers, civil and military services. Gandhi's non-cooperation movement also called for the end to untouchability...
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rule in 2007, and his post was rendered nonfunctional. After the Lawyers' Movement, he was restored to the bench in 2009. Considered a progressive judge...
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The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers...
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Asma Jahangir (category Pakistani lawyers)
Aid Cell. Jahangir was known for playing a prominent role in the Lawyers' Movement and served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of...
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12 May Karachi riots (section Lawyers' Movement)
for several days, culminating in events that led to the historic Lawyers' Movement. Several lawmakers and analysts have since questioned the incompetence...
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Weiquan lawyers (Chinese: 维权律师), or rights protection lawyers, refer to a small but influential movement of lawyers, legal practitioners, scholars and...
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may or may not be performed pro bono. Cause lawyering is frequently practiced by individual lawyers or lawyers employed by associations that aim to supply...
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founding partner of Afridi, Shah & Minallah, and was involved in the Lawyers' Movement of 2007 seeking restoration of the judiciary. "Hon'ble Sitting Judges...
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The Weiquan movement is a non-centralized group of lawyers, legal experts, and intellectuals in China who seek to protect and defend the civil rights of...
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Lateef Afridi (category Pashtun Tahafuz Movement politicians)
of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association and was a leader in the Lawyers' Movement. On 16 January 2023, Afridi was murdered by a gunman dressed in judicial...
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The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, or simply the Lawyers' Committee, is an American civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request...
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sit-in. A group of 50 to 60 pro-BNP lawyers stood in solidarity with the students, while pro-Awami League lawyers conducted a counter-march. The protest...
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Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1 (2013) Movement for Rule of Law, Related to Lawyers Movement Pakistan. Text of Pakistan emergency declaration...
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predominantly composed of planters with an agricultural economy. Merchants and lawyers began to move west, upsetting the social and political structure. They...
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Lidia Poët (category 19th-century Italian lawyers)
25 February 1949) was the first modern female Italian lawyer. Her disbarment led to a movement to allow women to practice law and hold public office in...
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The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...
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