Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Act, 1973 — section 44

44. Order as to costs..—(1) A Disciplinary Committee and a Tribunal may make such order as to costs of proceedings before it as it may deem fit; and where the Committee or, as the case may be, the Tribunal is of the opinion that a complaint made against an advocate is false and vexatious, it may, without prejudice to any other remedy available to the advocate, impose upon the complainant [such compensatory costs as may be deemed reasonable]: Provided that no order under this sub-section shall be made against a Court or the presiding officer of a Court [or a Bar Council].

(2)The Tribunal may on an application made to it in this behalf within the prescribed period, revise any order passed by a Disciplinary Committee under sub-section (1) or, of its own motion or on application so made, review any order passed by the Tribunal under that sub-section and may, in either case, maintain, vary or rescind the same, as it thinks fit.

(3)Subject to sub-section (2), every order of the Disciplinary Committee or the Tribunal under sub-section (1) shall be executable.

(a)if the Committee is appointed, or the Tribunal is constituted, by the Pakistan Bar Council, as if it were an order of the Supreme Court; and

(b)if the Committee is appointed, or the Tribunal is constituted, by a Provincial Bar Council, [or Islamabad Bar Council] as if it were an order of the High Court.