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Comparison of selected legal systems
Attribute	CambodiaReviewed	PakistanReviewed
Legal family	Civil law	Mixed common law and Islamic law
System of government	Unitary constitutional monarchy	Federal parliamentary republic
Constitution	Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia	Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
In force since	1993	1973
Capital	Phnom Penh	Islamabad
Official languages	Khmer	Urdu, English
Currency	Riel (KHR)	Pakistani rupee (PKR)
Population	17,000,000	241,500,000
Division of powers	Unitary, with 25 provinces and the capital. The Organic Law of 2008 created elected councils at provincial, municipal and district level, but fiscal and appointment power remains centralised in the Ministry of Interior.	Federal, with four provinces — Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan — plus Islamabad Capital Territory, and Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan under distinct constitutional arrangements. The 18th Amendment abolished the Concurrent Legislative List, leaving residual power with the provinces and giving them primary responsibility for education, health, labour and local government. The Council of Common Interests mediates federal-provincial disputes over resources.
How law is made	Bills are introduced by the government or by members, pass the National Assembly, go to the Senate for review within a fixed period, and return to the Assembly which may override Senate objections. The Constitutional Council may be asked to review a text before promulgation by the King. Much operative detail is then set by sub-decree, which does not pass through the Assembly at all.	Money bills originate in the National Assembly only. Other bills may start in either house and must pass both; disagreement is resolved in a joint sitting. The President may return a bill once, after which a joint sitting can override. Constitutional amendments need a two-thirds majority in both houses. Provincial assemblies legislate on all matters not on the Federal Legislative List.
Legal profession	Lawyers are admitted by the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, which controls the entrance examination and the training centre and holds a statutory monopoly on court representation. The profession was rebuilt from single figures in the early 1990s and now numbers well over a thousand. Foreign lawyers may advise and appear only in association with a Cambodian member, and notarial functions sit with a small licensed notariat created under the Civil Code reforms.	A single fused profession of advocates, enrolled with a provincial bar council after a law degree and the licensing examination, with separate rights of audience acquired by seniority: enrolment allows appearance in subordinate courts, then the High Court after two years, then the Supreme Court after ten years of High Court practice. The Pakistan Bar Council regulates nationally. Bar associations are politically influential and were central to the 2007-2009 lawyers' movement that secured the restoration of the deposed Chief Justice.

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