Senior Partner, Mercury Chambers
Justice (R) Mohammad Raheel Kamran Sheikh
Barrister, Middle Temple · Judge, Lahore High Court, 2021–2026
- reported judgments
- 126
- regulatory matters in judicial review
- 170
- tax matters
- 109
- financial matters
- 346
Overview
Justice (R) Mohammad Raheel Kamran Sheikh is a Barrister of the Middle Temple and holds an LL.B (Honours) from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He practised for more than twenty years before the Supreme Court and the High Courts of Pakistan in constitutional, commercial, fiscal and white-collar matters, then served as a judge of the Lahore High Court from 2021 until September 2026. As Senior Partner of Mercury Chambers, his experience of the bench informs the chambers’ commercial, constitutional and regulatory work.
Early career
He began his legal career in 1998 with three six-month pupillages, in commercial, criminal and civil litigation. From 2000 he assisted a senior advocate of the Supreme Court in cases of public importance. In 2008 he set up his own practice, Kamran Sheikh & Associates, and from 2016 to 2021 he was Managing Partner of Sheikh & Dahir, Barristers & Corporate Consultants.
At the Bar Council
From 2016 to 2020 he served as an elected member of the Pakistan Bar Council, where he contributed to amendments to the Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules 1976 and the Legal Education Rules 2015.
Public contributions
In 2015 he proposed the draft of occupational safety and health regulations under the Law and Justice Commission. He also recommended policy actions for persons with disabilities to the Supreme Court, which gave directions in 2020 SCMR 1713; the Punjab Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities Act 2022 followed.
He is the author of the chapter “Taking Liberty Seriously” in Politics and Jurisprudence of the Chaudhry Court 2005 to 2013 (Oxford University Press, 2015).
On the bench
He took oath as an additional judge of the Lahore High Court in May 2021 and was confirmed as a permanent judge in late 2022.
His work on the bench included 126 reported judgments across constitutional, civil, commercial, fiscal and criminal law; 170 regulatory matters decided in judicial review, including matters involving the Competition Commission of Pakistan, the Punjab Healthcare Commission, the Punjab Public Procurement Regulatory Authority and the Lahore Development Authority; 109 tax matters on Division and Single Benches; and 346 financial matters, among them 303 cases under the Financial Institutions (Recovery of Finances) Ordinance 2001.
Stepping down
In September 2026 he resigned from the bench to focus on legal scholarship, policy research and comparative judicial practice.