Suspension of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry the Supreme Court. Later it was explained that the senior-most judge after the Chief Justice was Justice Rana Bhagwandas, but since he was away from the country, Justice Javed Iqbal being the second in line was made the acting head of the apex court until Justice Bhagwandas would return. The move to make Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry 'non-functional' was immediately followed by yet another decision by the president to send a reference under Article 209 of the Constitution of Pakistan to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to investigate allegations of misconduct against him. Justice Chaudhry was called on by the President
Minister of Justice (New Zealand) Court and Minister of Corrections. The former has since been absorbed back into the Justice portfolio, but the latter is still independent. Minister of Justice (New Zealand) The Minister of Justice (in Māori: "Tāhū o te Ture") is a minister in the government of New Zealand. The minister has responsibility for the formulation of justice policy and for the administration of law courts. The current Minister of Justice is Andrew Little. The previous Minister of Justice, Amy Adams (politician), a member of the National Party, resigned from her ministerial positions on 26 October 2017, following a change in government, with