Mr. Hassan Kamran Bashir

1. Education Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA,LL.M(Master of Laws), June 2006 Subjects: Basic Taxation, International Commercial Arbitration, International Law, WTO Laws, Constitutional Law and International Human Rights Honors: Awarded Professional Development Program (PDP) Scholarship funded by World Bank and Govt. of Pakistan to study at Harvard. University Law College, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan, LL.B, 1991 Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, MSc. International Relations, 1989 Honors: Awarded Merit Scholarship by the University. 2. Experience Managing Partner at DeJure (Advocates and Corporate Legal Consultants) July,2017-Present: Advising clients on tax, corporate, WTO and other laws involving litigation, opinions and drafting, etc for various judicial fora including High Courts. Resource person for “Contract Enforcement” for CAREC (the Regional Organization of 11 Countries) workshop at Urumqi, China in July, 2018. Partner at Ernest & Kamran (Advocates, Solicitors, Tax & Corporate Consultants)June,2009–June,2017: Advising clients on tax, corporate, WTO and other laws involving litigation, opinions and drafting, etc for various judicial fora including High Courts. Consultancy Services for World Bank regarding Punjab Revenue Authority Tax Litigation Book-November,2016-July,2017 Consultancy Services for FAO regarding draft Federal & Provincial laws- 2015-16 Vice President( Activities) Harvard Club of Pakistan-2016 Visiting Faculty at Pakistan College of Law, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. September 2008-Present: Teaching Public International Law as a visiting faculty to the LL.B students. Visiting Faculty at University of Management Sciences, Lahore.June,2015 & June, 2017: Teaching Taxation to the LL.M students. Deputy Commissioner Income Tax, Federal Board of Revenue, Pakistan. 1995-2009: Honors: Was selected for the Income Tax Group as a result of Central Superior Services Competitive Examination, 1994(23rd Common). Made tax assessments of Corporate / Non Corporate cases (around 14000) in the career spanning around 14 years. Majority of them stood test of appeal. These tax assessments included (residents/non-residents) in major sectors. Represented Department before various judicial fora such as Commissioner (Appeals), Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue, Tax Ombudsman and High Court. Junior of Dr. Khalid Ranjha-1992-1995 Assisted senior in preparation of legal briefs and proceedings before various judicial fora including High Court. 3. Bar Membership: Awarded License to practice law at High Court in 1994. Did not practice law during November, 1995 till 2009 for having joined Civil Service for the Income Tax Group. Resumed practice in 2010. Awarded Supreme Court license in 2023. 4. High Court Cases: Total number of High Court cases after resumption of practice in 2010 before Hon’able Lahore High Court, Islamabad High Court, Peshawar High Court and Sindh High Court is more than four hundred cases. These are inclusive of Writ Petitions, ICAs, Tax References, Civil Revisions and FAOs. 5- Reported Judgments: 2022 PTD 1574, 2022 LHC 7179, 2022 LHC 3288, (2021)124 TAX 567, 2017 PTD 590, 2017 PTD 686, 2017 PTD 1544, 2016 PTD 200 and 2014 PTD 1807. 6. Columnist Contributed for various Urdu and English dailies of Pakistan on socio-cultural themes. 7. Languages English (fluent), Punjabi (native), Urdu (fluent). 8. Interests Reading books on various topics. Playing Cricket & following sports events like Cricket, Soccer & Hockey.