Retrospective right of appeal ‘unreasonable’

Supreme Court’s Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi has declared that the provisions of subsection 2 of Section 5 of the SC (Practice and Procedure) Act — providing the right of appeal to an aggrieved person against whom an order has been passed under clause (3) of Article 184 prior to the commencement of law – were ultra vires to Article 8 of the Constitution as they offended…