The lawyers boycotted court proceedings at district courts, banking courts, sessions courts on the call of various lawyers bodies and tied black armbands as a sign of protest here on Saturday to dissent the presidential reference against non-functional chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
They also took out protest procession, which led by Chaudhry Tanveer-ur-Rehman Randhawa President, Tauqeer Sarwar Sheikh, Secretary FDBA and Malik Amjad Hussain former chairman. Police cordoned off the District Bar Association building and blocked all the outside ways.
Local lawyers also demanded for a high court bench at Faisalabad for early access to justice. All members of Faisalabad Bar have condemned the attack on local news channel in Islamabad and stayed away from court proceedings.