KARACHI: The Supreme Court Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman said in Karachi last night [Aug 22] that inadequate salaries given to High Court Judges, fixed over a hundred years ago, are posing a difficult problem for getting suitable recruits from the Bar.

Addressing the annual general meeting of the High Court Bar Association, the Chief Justice said, “there are in your Bar, I am told, many members who earn in a day what a Judge earns in a month”. “We, Judges, are naturally reluctant to raise this question of our own emoluments but we can only hope that under the new set-up justice will also be done to Judges,” he added.

The Chief Justice asked the lawyers to adopt the motto “service above self in the cause of maintaining the supremacy of the law”. He said that a true lawyer cannot afford to dissemble and he is a worshipper of truth. …

Mr Justice Rahman said that in the past lawyers provided leadership in every field of activity and every walk of life. Unfortunately, of late, the profession has been exposed to some adverse criticism, in spite of the past contributions to the institutional and constitutional development of the country,” he added.

Published in Dawn, August 23rd, 2020