Saad Saood Jan (1931–2005) was a Pakistani

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...

Career

During his career, Jan was Joint Secretary for the Ministry of Law and Secretary to the Parliamentary Affairs Division. As a jurist, he served on the Lahore High Court, Supreme Court of Pakistan (1986), and twice as its acting Chief Justice. Jan was a member of the Hague

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's National Group and was appointed by the UN as a Judge for the

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in 1996, succeeding

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References

1931 births 2005 deaths Pakistani judges {{Pakistan-law-bio-stub