Talha Ijlal · Lahore, Pakistan · Legal text retrieval
I make Pakistan’s law searchable.
Lead/founding data engineer at DigiLawyer. I build the ingestion and retrieval that sits underneath the product — statutes, judgments, and the hybrid search that ties them together. The demo below reproduces the interaction pattern with synthetic records because production legal data and product internals cannot be shown here.
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2026 SHC 269⚖Sindh High CourtHon'ble Mr. Justice Adnan-ul-Karim Memon(author)Hon'ble Mr. Justice Zulfiqar Ali Sangi
(S.B.) Hascol Petroleum v. Shahzaib Rind & Another
application. The Rent Controller held that the Lease Deed was executed against monthly rent and was not “coupled with interest,” that the demised premises were given on a monthly tenancy, and that the Rent Controller acted as a persona designata and not as a “Court” within the meaning of the Arbitration Act, 1940. It was further held
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W.P No. 274-P of 2026⚖Peshawar High CourtHon'ble Mr. Justice Tanveer Khalid(author)
Dr. Azhar Jadoon v. Registrar, Peshawar High Court & others
powers and jurisdiction as the former. This delegation is total, embracing the sum of the District Judge's functions unless a specific statute expressly designates the District Judge as a persona designata or explicitly bars such delegation. Thus, constitutionally and statutorily, while the District Judge remains the administrative head and
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2026 PLD 13⚖Peshawar High CourtHon'ble Mr. Justice Syed Mudasser Ameer(author)
Tauqir Ahmed v. Peshawar High Court & others
(PLD 2021 Supreme Court 391), wherein the apex Court has held as follows: We are clear in our minds that Chief Justices or Judges of a High Court exercising their executive, administrative or consultative actions in the context of the instant matters do not act as persona designata, rather act for and on the behest of, and as a High Court
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The work I’m focused on right now — some at DigiLawyer, some on my own time. A computer scientist by training, shaped earlier by classical study.
Q2 26Cross-encoder re-ranking over top-50 retrieval candidates, evaluated against a hand-labelled legal query set.DigiLawyer
Q2 26A temporal versioning model for statutory amendments — every section as an object queryable as of a date.DigiLawyer
2026Writing notes on why dense-only retrieval underperforms on statute text, and where hybrid scoring recovers the gap.Writing
AlwaysReading across classical logic and modern retrieval research; both are useful ways to think about structure, evidence, and interpretation.Personal