Nawaz's children raise objection over three-member bench

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's children on Monday raised objection over the three-member bench of Supreme Court formed to hear their review pleas on Tuesday (today) against the apex court's verdict of July 28 in the Panama Papers case. Nawaz Sharif and his children - Maryam Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz - had filed review pleas before the apex court to set aside its verdict in the Panama Papers case for which the apex court formed a three-member bench led by Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan and comprising Justice Azmat Saeed Sheikh and Justice Ijazul Ahsan and fixed the hearing of the matter for September 12.
By filing an application under the Supreme Court Rules 1980, the counsel for Nawaz Sharif's children requested the apex court to postpone the hearing before the three-member bench till fixation of another plea of his clients in which he had already raised objection over the five-member larger bench's jurisdiction that gave its final verdict on July 28.
On Saturday (September 09), Khawaja Haris Ahmed, the counsel for Nawaz Sharif, also filed an application of the same nature saying, "As per apex court's record, the final order of the court of July 28, 2017 upholds the petitioner's objection raised in the earlier/already filed review petition No. 297/2017 to the effect that the five-member bench did not have the jurisdiction to pass the final order of the court of July 28, rather a final judgment in this case can only be passed by a three-member bench."
Khawaja Haris Ahmed requested the court to postpone his client's review petition in the disqualification matter till fixation and hearing of the plea about objections over the five-member bench's jurisdiction to announce the verdict in the Panama Papers case. Similarly, the counsel for Maryam Nawaz, Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz also urged the court on Monday to decide his clients' objection over the five-member bench's jurisdiction to announce the final verdict in the Panama Papers case before hearing the main review petition in the matter.