Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Azmat Saeed has said the disposal of cases is not the courts’ mandate – the courts decide cases according to the law. Now, what is being said is taken into account, as opposed to who says it.
He was addressing the Lahore Bar Association (LBA) members at the Aiwan-e-Adl bar room on Wednesday during his first visit to any bar after taking oath as LHC CJ.
He added that the best way to get rid of problems was to achieve expertise in the field, emphasisng that age was no indicator of superiority in a court room. While experience was a powerful teacher, expertise could be gained by hard work.
He said trial courts were the places from where one not only learn the law even he becomes gold after hard work in these courts, these type of court are first nursery for the lawyers as well as the last university. The court is not being named as small or big, this is the case that is rated big or small. He admitted that there was a multitude of problems, especially in the lower judiciary and there were ways to get rid of these problems. He said it was a misconception that he could solve all judiciary-related problems alone, adding that the process would take time and the joint effort of the entire community. He added that in the court room, the adversary was the opponent lawyer and not the judge – the judge was only a referee. Lahore High Court Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik and Lahore Bar Association President Shahzad Hassan Sheikh also delivered speeches on the occasion, in the presence of LHC Registrar Suhail Nasir, the Lahore district judge and the Lahore senior civil judge.
