Chief Justice, Lahore High Court, Lahore

MR MR. JUSTICE MAMOON RASHID SHEIKH, CHIEF JUSTICE, LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE Mr. Justice Mamoon Rashid Sheikh was born on March 19, 1958, at Lahore. He attended Prep. School at Queen Mary College, Lahore, and subsequently did his Matriculation from St. Anthony's High School, Lahore. Thereafter, he graduated from Government College, Lahore. He chose to join the legal profession by following in the footsteps of his father, Mr. Justice A.R. Sheikh. He joined the Punjab University Law College, Lahore, and obtained his LL.B. Degree. Subsequently he attended Brunel University, UK, and was awarded the GDSS. Besides working in his father's law firm, he also remained associated with Ansari Law Associates, Nisar Law Associates and Surridge and Beecheno. He founded his own law firm SSR&I in 2006. He practiced mainly on the civil, commercial, corporate and constitutional side. He also dealt with arbitration matters and cases involving carriage by air, land and sea. He also dealt with medical malpractice cases, insurance disputes and intellectual property disputes. He represented various clients, including Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, Pakistan Television Corporation Limited, Daewoo Corporation, Cotecna, Samsonite Corp., Citibank, PICIC, NBP, Soneri Bank, NIB Bank, Norwich Union and several other insurance companies, PIA, British Airways, Emirates, Saudia, Pan Am, KLM and Singapore Airlines. He served as a Member of the Executive Committee of the Lahore High Court Bar Association. He joined the Advocate-General Punjab's Office in 2009. He was elevated to the Bench in February 2010. After his elevation he has dealt with civil, constitutional, criminal and commercial/corporate cases/matters. He acted as an Election Tribunal in the 2013 and 2018 general elections. He has been the Inspection Judge for the Districts of Mianwali, Khanewal, Sahiwal, Multan, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Lahore. He delivers lectures at the Punjab Judicial Academy. He was a Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, University Law College, University of the Punjab, and is a Member Syndicate, University of the Punjab. He has attended and/or chaired a number of law conferences/seminars in Pakistan. He represented the Lahore High Court at the Pakistan Independence Day Celebrations, held at Oslo, Norway, in 2016. He participated in a law conference on the topic, "Convergence and Co-operation in Asian Business Law", at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2017. He was part of a Lahore High Court, delegation, which visited the United Kingdom, in 2017, to explore, identify and share issues/experiences in respect of judicial reforms and case flow management, etc. He initiated the holding of the Sesquicentennial (150th) Anniversary Celebrations of the Lahore High Court, Lahore, in the year 2016. He acted as the Master of Ceremonies of the final event of the Celebrations. He was appointed as the Chief Justice Lahore High Court, Lahore, with effect from 01-01-2020.