Justice Ayesha A Malik of the Lahore High Court on Friday will take up objections today on two separate petitions by bar members questioning alleged irregularities in promotion/elevation of all assistant registrars of the high court.

Mian Maqsood Ahmad and Asadullah Virk, both members bar argued in their petitions that all serving assistant registrars had been elevated without observance of procedure that include pre-promotion examination.

Mian Maqsood pleaded in his petition that the illegal and unlawful assistant registrars had been appointed or promoted by then chief justices of the LHC in exercise of discretionary powers.

He said the high court appointment and condition of sub rules 8 & 9 categorically provided that no such appointment could straight away be made. He asked the court to set aside all previous appointments/promotion of assistant registrars made in violation of the rules and ensure that all future appointments/promotions were made strictly in accordance with law.