Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976 — section 112

112. (a) An appeal against the order of a Provincial Bar Council 179[or the Islamabad Bar Council] refusing enrolment of a person, shall be filed before the Enrolment Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council within one month of the date when the order is communicated to the applicant. The Enrolment Committee shall have the power to extend the time for sufficient cause.

(b)Every such appeal shall be accompanied by a deposit receipt of Rs. 180[5000/-] deposited by the applicant with the Pakistan Bar Council.

(c)If the appeal is not dismissed in limini notice of the admission of the appeal and of the date fixed for its hearing shall be served on the Advocate General of the Province [or ICT] in which the application for enrolment is filed.

(d)For the admission of the appeal it shall not be necessary to call a meeting of the Committee and it will be sufficient if the memo of appeal is circulated amongst the members.

(e)If the appeal is admitted, the appellant shall deposit 181[another] sum of Rs. 182[2000/-] in the funds of the Pakistan Bar Council and notice of appeal shall not be served until this amount is deposited.

(f)If within one month of the notice of admission of the appeal the appellant does not deposit the amount referred to in clause (e) above the appeal shall stand dismissed.

(g)The Committee may for sufficient cause set aside an order of dismissal passed under this rule but the Committee may refuse to set aside the order if the appellant has been guilty of latches in making an application for setting aside the order.