Re: Free Judiciary and Media; Reality or Delusion?
Not in Pakistan:
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****(d)**‘Judicial contempt’ means the scandalisation of a court and includes personalised criticism of a judge while holding office;
**10.**Criticism of judgments.-
No criticism of a judgment in a case which has been finally decided and is no longer pending shall constitute contempt, no matter how far reaching or outspoken in nature it may be, **if it is phrased in temperate language and does not impute improper motives to the judge.
**Contempt of Court Ordinance - X of 1998
the moron was issued contempt notice just as the current moron in question. So where does this picking one moron over another come in, I dont know.
Access to education is a fundamental right of every Pakistani and SC is the final body which ensures those fundamental rights. SO the suo moto on Bhangra lyrics was perfect jurisdiction of SC because the moron in question here has a tendency to use vulgar lyrics which in this case ended up with a girl having to abandon her studies because some morons at her school had decided to use the lyrics to harass her. So if a judge finds the lyrics moronic and decides to drag the moron who wrote those moronic lyrics to the court, it should not stop him from doing so just because some other moron carried out some moronic activities in the decade of the morons and no judge at that time took notice of it.