KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the provincial government to apprise the court of a proposal to provide relief funds to the lawyers affected by the COVID pandemic and the lockdown restrictions.
On a petition filed by the Sindh Bar Council and lawyers seeking direction to the federal and the provincial governments to provide an annual grant and at least Rs70 million to the bar council’s relief funds for the provision of financial assistance to the lawyers, court ordered Sindh government to come up with a proposal to heed demands of the lawyer community.
The additional secretary for law informed SHC that Sindh government had no funds for allocation to the lawyers, but the Sindh government’s finance secretary had submitted a communication on May 18, 2020, through the deputy secretary according to which the law department may work out a proposal after taking a proposal from the government of Punjab.
The law department was also asked to identify a suitable mechanism for identifying the most deserving lawyers and once the number of those deserving lawyers and suitable compensation package was crafted by the administrative department, the finance department would be able to commit the availability of funds.
Punjab had announced a package of Rs130 million for the deserving lawyers, petitioners demanded similar relief for the legal fraternity of Sindh.
The SHC’s bench, headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazzhar, directed the law and finance secretaries to apprise the court of a proposal on the next hearing.
Proposal to give relief to lawyers sought
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