Lawyers' Movement

Lawyers' Movement
Activists of Pakistan Muslim League (N) participate in a long march on 15 March 2009, organised to support the Lawyers' Movement that had appealed for the restoration of judiciary since the unconstitutional suspension of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Date	9 March 2007 — 17 March 2009
Location	Nationwide, throughout Pakistan
Caused by	Suspension of chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Goals	Restoration of judiciary and reinstatement of removed judges.
Methods	Protest demonstration, rallying motorcades
Resulted in	Eventual restoration of judiciary
Parties
Pakistani judiciary and various parties in opposition Government of Pakistan
Lead figures
Iftikhar M. Chaudhry Munir A. Malik Aitzaz Ahsan Ali Ahmad Kurd Nawaz Sharif Latif Afridi Pervez Musharraf Asif Ali Zardari

The Lawyers' Movement, also known as the Movement for the Restoration of Judiciary or the Black Coat Protests, was the popular mass protest movement initiated by the lawyers of Pakistan in response to the former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf's actions of 9 March 2007 when he unconstitutionally suspended Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court. Following the suspension of the chief justice, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) declared the judge's removal as an "assault on the independence of judiciary" and was backed by several political parties.^[1]