Supreme Court terms lawyers' vigilance 'foundational' to protecting clients' cases from dismissal
ISLAMABAD: Emphasising the importance of diligent case presentation, the Supreme Court on Saturday reiterated that an advocate’s absolute vigilance was a “foundational requirement” for protecting a client’s case from dismissal in default. This principle is also “reverberated across the world with one voice by dint of a legal maxim ‘Vigilantibus et non dormientibus jura subveniunt’, thereby implying that the law assists the vigilant, not those who sleep over their rights”, observed Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar in an eight-page judgment issued on Saturday, which restored two civil revisions that