Shane
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Like you say, It has become clear in recent days that the original 5 member bench had given an interim order and the actual judgement was postponed till JIT implementation bench concluded its hearings.
Based on Judges comments in memory, the three implementation bench judges would have started preparing, deliberating and writing implementation bench recommendations immediately for the original five judges bench.
After the recommendations are prepared, the five member bench shall deliberate on those recommendations and write the final judgment.
The two earlier dissenting judges may well stick with their earlier judgements and may or may not add further (along those lines) their own findings based on implementation bench judges recommendations. I think at least Justice Khosa will add further if not both.
The three JIT judges obviously would have arrived at their findings too.
The judges may concur/ oppose according to their findings and arrive at a unanimous or majority verdict.
Justice Khosa and or other justices shall then write their findings/notes in the concluding judgement like in the interim order and Justice Khosa shall announce the final verdict.
It's just a not too wild guess based on how the media reported about the earlier interim order, I may be totally wrong but to me it appears to be a time consuming endeavour in itself.
May be if there is broad based consensus, I wish, we may yet get a verdict sooner rather than later.
I still think that it will be atleast 4-1 in favour of DQ if not unanimous, in sha Allah, and onwards to trial courts, NAB and EC according to criminal court or institutional proceedings requirements.
Above is the actual post on the subject of 3 or 5 member bench.
