He helped restructure the curriculum of the Punjab Judicial Academy and align it with global best practices to create a sustainable platform to build the judicial capacity of district court members and ministerial court staff. He placed particular emphasis on research and was instrumental in establishing the Lahore High Court Research Centre (LHCRC). At the Supreme Court of Pakistan, he contributed to the establishment of electronic courts by linking the supreme court headquarters to all provincial supreme court registries by video, saving travel costs from across the country to Islamabad and facilitating the work schedule of lawyers who can handle other cases. Work more efficiently by avoiding postponements. This happened before covid-19 and gained exceptional benefits during the pandemic. HC`s new judicial mobile app helps lawyers and litigants navigate case lists and court lists and has improved their access to justice. Research and science are the hallmarks of all the higher courts in the country, so the Research Center (SCRC) was established in the SC building, which is staffed with brilliant and promising civilian judges from all over Pakistan. The vision of the CPCR is to provide and eventually support research to all courts across the country, thereby enriching our jurisprudence and the science of our judges. Her areas of expertise include constitutional law, human rights, climate[2] and water justice, environmental sustainability, disability rights, criminology, digital surveillance, privacy and proportionality. He believes in ongoing judicial reforms; He led the formation of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADRC) centres in Punjab as Chief Justice to provide an alternative to litigation to reduce the chronic backlog and dizzying dependence on cases. It has created criminal and civil model courts to create working coordination among stakeholders to accelerate jurisprudence, introduced case management and court automation systems in Punjab to the High Court and District Courts of Lahore, installed the first enterprise computer system with the help of the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) to maintain the court`s computer vision for the next decade and strengthening the judicial system.
conception; Open, transparent, intelligent and fully connected at all levels. In order to allow an ordinary litigant and lawyers to access justice, an online call centre, a mobile justice application and an online Sahulat (Care) centre have been set up. It stresses the need for information technology, artificial intelligence, video linking, staff development and district justice restructuring to be effective drivers of change for the future and hopes that they will be integrated in order to achieve a state-of-the-art judicial administration. It attaches great importance to strengthening the district justice system by improving its capacity through international and national training based on performance indicators and by providing a safe and enabling working environment, especially for women judges. It considers that it is necessary to increase the number of judges per capita in order to improve the quality and speed of justice in the country. Justice Shah is an accredited mediator of the CEDR in London; Honorary citizen of Lincoln`s Inn, United Kingdom; judicial member of the Global Judicial Institute on the Environment (GJIE) (Brazil); Member of Global Constitutionalism (Yale University, 2020-) and member of the Rhodes Scholarships Committee for Pakistan (2019-). He is an avid golfer, loves sports and loves cycling, reading, traveling and music. Justice Shah was appointed to the Supreme Court of Lahore in 2009 and after serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Lahore for almost two years, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Pakistan in early 2018.
He was educated at Aitchison College, Lahore and holds a law degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, as well as the University of Punjab, where he also earned a Master`s degree in Economics. As a litigator, he was a partner at AFRID, SHAH & MINALLAH[1] and had a keen interest in public interest litigation with a particular focus on environmental issues and sustainable development. He had a passion for teaching and taught law for almost two decades at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan College of Law and Punjab Law College in Lahore. He was also part of the steering committee that established the LUMS Law School, now called the Syed Ahmed Hassan School of Law & Policy (SAHSOL).