Asghar Leghari is Partner at Leghari & Darguar in Pakistan. Alumni of the Duke University Law School, he has brought and given his name to the first successful climate lawsuit against a government in the global south. Mr. Leghari’s roundtable intervention focused on analyzing strategies and avenues of litigation for climate adaptation in Pakistan. He distinguished private and public litigation pathways, noticing that the private pathway faces a lot of obstacles stemming from the lack of adequate regulatory standards related to adaptation that can be applied by local courts. In the realm of public litigation, however, important developments have stemmed from the constitutional power that the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the provincial High Courts have to issue instructions to public authorities in order to enforce fundamental rights as well as to guide and review their implementation through the appointment of specialized commissions. He put forward the idea that while these commissions have played a significant role in promoting climate adaptation measures, they also risked hampering the role of administrative agencies and lower courts in developing the foundations for long-term adaptation to climate change.
Asghar Leghari是巴基斯坦Leghari & Darguar律师事务所的合伙人。作为杜克大学法学院的校友，他提出了全球南部地区第一起针对政府的成功气候诉讼案，并以他的名字命名。Leghari先生在圆桌讨论阶段重点分析了巴基斯坦气候适应诉讼的策略和途径。他对私人和公共诉讼途径进行了区分，指出私人途径面临着许多障碍，原因是缺乏可由当地法院适用的监管标准；而公共诉讼领域的发展主要源于巴基斯坦最高法院和省级高等法院拥有向公共当局发出指示的宪法权力，以便执行广泛界定的基本权利，甚至指导和审查其执行情况，特别是通过任命专门委员会。他认为，虽然这些委员会在促进气候适应措施方面发挥了重要作用，但它们也有可能妨碍行政机构和下级法院在为长期适应气候变化奠定基础方面的作用。