Lahore High Court Chief Justice (CJ) Azmat Saeed highlighted on Monday the benefits of implementing the Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), which will reduce the burden of the judicial system and to deliver justice swiftly to people who face endless litigations on matters that are resolvable out of the courts. “The implementation of ADR in the courts is not alien to us and people in the region have benefited from this mode of reconciliation for centuries,” said the CJ. He was addressing an inauguration ceremony of a 7-day Judges Mediators Skills Training Programme (JMSTP) at a local hotel. Around 30 judges from the district judiciary are attending this programme.
Saeed said the practice of settling disputes out of court had dwindled with time and therefore, the results of the system were not satisfactory. He said these skills had to be regenerated in order to reduce the huge backlog of cases in courts. He advised the participants to take full benefit of this useful initiative launched by the Centre for Affective Dispute Resolution, UK and International Finance Corporation of Islamabad.
CJ points out the benefits of out-of-court reconciliation
