Zain Faisal Hashmi
Punjab Bar Council · Lahore High Court

Zain Faisal
Hashmi

Advocate · Author · Counsellor — practising with precision, arguing with conviction.

15+
Years
400+
Cases
3
Jurisdictions
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Zain Faisal Hashmi
Guiding Principle
"Fiat justitia ruat caelum — Let justice be done though the heavens fall."
Profile

The counsel
you need.

Zain Faisal Hashmi is a practising advocate before the Lahore High Court and subordinate courts throughout Punjab. His career is built on meticulous preparation, unflinching advocacy, and an academic grounding in postcolonial jurisprudence that sets him apart.

He brings to every brief the same rigour he applies to scholarship — reading the record with precision, identifying the fulcrum of each dispute, and arguing with a clarity that commands attention in any courtroom.

Clients trust him not because he promises outcomes — but because he understands the human stakes behind every docket number.

Lahore High Court Punjab Bar Council Pakistan Bar Council MPhil Researcher
Expertise

Areas of Practice

Corporate & Commercial

Shareholder disputes, contractual breaches, regulatory compliance, and high-stakes commercial litigation before civil courts and tribunals.

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Criminal Defence

Bail applications, trial defence, and appellate advocacy in serious criminal matters before Sessions and High Courts.

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Civil Litigation

Property disputes, injunctions, declaratory suits, and enforcement of decrees across Punjab's civil courts.

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Family & Succession

Inheritance disputes, guardianship, maintenance, and proceedings under Muslim Family Laws Ordinance.

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Constitutional Matters

Writ petitions challenging unlawful state action, illegal detention, and fundamental rights violations.

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Dispute Resolution

Mediation and arbitration for commercial and civil disputes — faster paths to enforceable resolution.

Research & Writing

Published Articles

Ecoprecarity and Biopolitics in Nnedi Okorafor's Noor
Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 12
An examination of Foucauldian biopolitics applied to contemporary African science fiction, interrogating the nexus of environmental precarity and state control over vulnerable bodies.
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Antinatalism and the Impotent Body: Benatar's Asymmetry in South Asian Fiction
South Asian Review, Vol. 44
Applying David Benatar's asymmetry thesis to postcolonial disability narratives, this paper interrogates the ethics of harm, suffering, and non-existence in literary representations.
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Fundamental Rights Under Article 199: The Expanding Scope of Writ Jurisdiction
Pakistan Law Review, Vol. 18
A doctrinal analysis of how the Lahore High Court has progressively expanded writ jurisdiction to protect fundamental rights against both state and non-state actors.
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Tughlaq's Tragic Vision: Power, Idealism and Historical Revisionism in Karnad
Theatre Research International, Vol. 47
A reading of Girish Karnad's Tughlaq as a meditation on the gap between political idealism and historical reality, using postcolonial historiography as its critical lens.
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ChambersJhelum, Punjab
Phone / WhatsApp+92 317 544 9720
CourtLahore High Court
BarPunjab · Pakistan Bar Council
LanguagesUrdu · English · Punjabi