Concept of judicial review stemmed from the judgment

It is not far-fetched to mention that the concept of judicial review stemmed from the judgment in the case of “WILLIAM MARBURY vs. JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State of the United States” (5 US 137 – Supreme Court 1803), passed by the Chief Justice Marshall and the principles of judicial review enunciated by such a great jurist still hold good in the annals of the constitutional dispensation of a federal character. He declared that “the legislature has no authority to make laws repugnant to the Constitution and in the case of constitutional violation the court has absolute and inherent rights to invent the system of judicial review which was already in the process of evolution”,

Part Of Judgment
Lahore High Court
Criminal Proceedings
71713/19
2020 LHC 86