Overview

• The court set aside contempt proceedings tied to Additional Registrar Nazar Abbas, ending the intra-court case.
• It ruled that judges cannot file writs or start contempt against a colleague of the same court.
• The judgment anchored immunity for administrative acts in Article 199(5) and vested misconduct inquiries exclusively in the Supreme Judicial Council under Article 209(7).
• Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail authored the 11-page opinion in the Nazar Abbas appeal.
• The bench rebuked the two-judge initiators for acting “out of the blue” and stressed equal status among superior-court judges.