State Supreme Court disqualifies SC judge after his son is elected solicitor

Father-son relationship bars SC judge from hearing criminal cases in his district • SC Daily Gazette

(File/Getty Images)The son of a Pee Dee judge was elected the chief prosecutor of his judicial circuit. Now the judge can do little in the region where he’s presided for more than three decades. As head of the state judicial branch, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Kittredge published an order Friday that bars Judge Paul Burch from hearing any criminal cases in the Fourth Circuit, starting Jan. 1. The order also prevents Burch from presiding ove…

State Supreme Court disqualifies SC judge after his son is elected solicitor

The Supreme Court of South Carolina disqualified Fourth Circuit Judge Paul M. Burch more than a month after his son, Paul (Mike) Burch Jr., was elected Fourth Circuit Solicitor.

SC judges reprimand state institutions for 'involving in political affairs'

These file photos show Supreme Court’s Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan and Justice Athar Minallah. — Supreme Court websiteISLAMABAD: Supreme Court's Justices Jamal Khan Mandokhail and Athar Minallah have reprimanded the state institutions for engaging in...

State institutions engaged in political engineering, toppling govts: SC judges

ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Judge Justice Athar Minallah has said that the very state was busy in toppling governments and its institutions were chasing political opponents. If the constitution had been followed, we would not be in a situation we face today. He gave these remarks during the hearing of a case on bail plea of Ishaq, a murder accused on the run after securing bail. A three-member bench headed by Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail chaired t…

Top Court Judge Irked Over Institutions' 'involvement In Political Engineering' - Pakistan Live News

(Left to right) These file photos show Supreme Court’s Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Malik Shahzad Ahmad Khan and Justice Athar Minallah. — Supreme Court website Institutions busy chasing political opponents: Justice Minallah. Justice Malik says no could even predict a premier’s tenure. Institutions’ “lack willingness to do something”, laments SC judge. ISLAMABAD: A pending trial of a 2017 murder in the Supreme Court prompted the senior ju…