After the release of the Faizabad dharna judgment in 2019 a reference against Justice Qazi Faez Isa was filed by the Government alleging the properties belonging to his wife Ms. Sarina Isa are of his own, without providing opportunity of hearing, the reference was later struck down by the Supreme Court. Mrs. Isa successfully challenged the order, establishing that she had an independent means of livelihood and was a separate taxpayer, since she started working in 1981.
Birth: 26th, October, 1959
Birth Place: Quetta, Balochistan
Education: Bar at law – Unregistered Barrister
Justice Qazi Faez Isa is the grandson of Qazi Jalaluddin, the Prime Minister of Kalat State, and the late Qazi Mohammad Isa of Pishin, who was at the forefront of the Pakistan Movement.
For more than 27 years, he represented clients before the Federal Shariat Court, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and all of Pakistan’s High Courts.
He participated in international arbitrations and provided his skills as an amicus curiae when the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan requested them. He has served on the boards of the Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan and the biggest bank in Pakistan. On the Constitution, the Law, Islam, and the Environment. Justice Isa was immediately promoted to the office of Chief Justice of the High Court of Balochistan following his stand of non-appearance in November 2007.
In the High Court, Justice Isa instituted a system of open induction of officials and officers. On September 5, 2014, Justice Qazi Faez Isa took his oath to serve as a judge of the Pakistani Supreme Court.
He penned a forceful dissent in the case criticising the Constitution’s Twenty-first Amendment, which allowed civilians to be tried in military courts – PLD 2015 Supreme Court 410.
