George Baxandall Constantine

{{short description|British-Pakistani jurist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Justice
Sir

| name = George Baxandall Constantine

| office = Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan

| term_start = 1955

| term_end = 1960

| nominator = Muhammad Ali

| appointer = Iskander Ali Mirza

| office2 = Chief Justice of Sindh High Court

| term_start2 = 1949{{fact|date=September 2023}}

| term_end2 = 1955{{fact|date=September 2023}}

| nominator2 = Liaquat Ali Khan

| appointer2 = Khwaja Nazim-ud-Din

| predecessor2 = Justice Hatim B. Tyabji

| successor2 = Justice Hassanali G. Agha

| office3 = 4th Governor of Sindh

| term_start3 = 2 May 1953

| term_end3 = 11 August 1953

| monarch3 = Elizabeth II

| governor_general3 = Malik Ghulam Muhammad

| primeminister3 = Mohammad Ali Bogra

| predecessor3 = Mian Aminuddin

| successor3 = Habib Rahimtoola

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|06|02}}

| birth_place = Bradford, England, United Kingdom{{fact|date=June 2025}}

| death_date = 1969

| death_place = London, United Kingdom{{fact|date=June 2025}}

| citizenship = {{UK}} {{small|(1902–47; 1960–69)}}
{{PAK}} {{small|(1947–69)}}

| nationality = British

| spouse =

| education = Bradford Grammar School{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Who_s_who/CRb5qYtZa_UC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Sir%20George%20Baxandall%22|title=Who's who|page=638|year=1963|volume=115}}

| alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford

}}

Sir George Baxandall Constantine (22 June 1902 – 8 September 1969) was an English and Pakistani jurist who served as the Chief Justice of Sindh High Court, and prior to that, Governor of Sindh for a brief tenure.{{cite web|title=Official Website - Sindh Governor House Pakistan|url=http://www.governorsindh.gov.pk/governors/|website=www.governorsindh.gov.pk|publisher=Governor of Sindh Secretariat|accessdate=3 April 2017}} In 1955, he was elevated as the justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan in 1955 and served until 1960.{{cite web|title=Welcome to High Court of Sindh|url=http://www.shc.gov.pk/introduction.php|website=www.shc.gov.pk|publisher=Welcome to High Court of Sindh|accessdate=3 April 2017|language=en}}

Considered original textualist in his jurisprudence, he gained public importance when he termed Sir Malik Ghulam's attempt to dissolve the Constituent Assembly illegal, ruling in favour of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Maulvi Tamizuddin to restore Prime Minister Nazimuddin's administration.{{cite news|last1=Khan|first1=Asad Rahim|title=Citizens versus courts: The verdict on a faltering justice system|url=http://herald.dawn.com/news/1153453|accessdate=3 April 2017|work=Herald Magazine|agency=Herald Magazine|publisher=Herald Magazine, AR Khan|date=1 July 2016|language=en}}

In his famous Irish accent, he went on to declare the assembly as sovereign but Chief Justice Munir overturned Constantine's decision in the historic Maulvi Tamizuddin case.