ISLAMABAD -Pakistani former CJP Justice (R) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani winsbig international award.
Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice (Retd) Tassaduq Hussain Jillanihas been awarded the 2020 J. Clifford Wallace Award in recognition of hisextraordinary career as a judge and a jurist.
During his 30-year-long decorated career from 1994 to 2014, Justice (Retd)Jillani also served as Pakistan’s representative judge at the InternationalCourt of Justice at The Hague.
He is the co-chair of the World Justice Project, which works to lead aglobal, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for thedevelopment of communities of opportunity and equity.
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The award was given by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, a body of leadinglawyers from around the world, who “affirm the strength brought to the lawby a lawyer’s personal religious conviction” and “strive through publicservice and professional excellence to promote fairness and virtue foundedupon the rule of law.”
