Ch. Imran Hassan Ali represented the petitioner before the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal against a judgment of the Lahore High Court. The High Court had dismissed the petitioner’s Writ Petition by relying upon two judgments of the Supreme Court in which the Civil Aviation Authority Regulations, 2000, had been declared to be non-statutory.
On 01-01-2018, finding prima facie merit in Imran’s submissions, the Court decided to grant leave in order to revisit its own earlier judgments. Consequently, the CPLA was converted into an appeal.
On 05-07-2024, the appeal was heard by a three-member bench of the Supreme Court. In view of the importance of the questions of law involved, the bench referred the case to a five-member bench for futher hearing.