Justice Umar Ata Bandial, senior judge of the Lahore High Court on Saturday said the judges, through their expertise, enviable character and knowledge of the law can deliver fair, free and perfect decisions as well as win the hearts of legal fraternity and the people.
He expressed these views while addressing the concluding ceremony of the third capacity building in service training course of district and sessions judges held at Punjab Judicial Academy. Justice Umar Ata Bandial said there were approximately 1.2 million cases pending adjudication throughout the country while only in Punjab there were one million such cases in courts. These cases showed that people trusted the judiciary more, in comparison to other institutions.
Justice Bandial said he was happy that judicial academy was playing an important role for the capacity building of judges. He appreciated Academy Director General Justice (r) Tanver Ahmed Khan and others associated with the the noble task. He was of the view that maximum deliverance of justice was the only way to solve the problems of the people who trusted the judiciary and were the true stakeholders of judicial system. On this occasion Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan, Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi and Justice (r) Khalil-ur-Rehman Khan, LHC Human Rights and Vigilance Cell DG Kazim Ali Malik, Research and Development DG Javed Rasheed Mehboobi, Punjab Forensic Laboratory Ashraf Tahir were also present.
At the end, certificates and awards were distributed among the judges who had successfully completed this week long exercise. Sessions judges who attended the course include Muhammad Tariq Abbasi, Muhammad Islam, Wamiq Javed, Muhammad Falaq Sher Faooqa, Moqurab Khan, Ch Mushtaq Ahmad, Ch Abdul Qayyum, Muhammad Rashid Qamar, Abdul Hafeez, Mushtaq Ahmad Tarar, Ch. Khaliq-uz-Zaman, Abid Hussain Qureshi, Muhammad Ilyas, Sanaullah Khan Niazi, Ghaffar Jalil, Shahid Naseer, Abid Hussain, Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry, Muhammad Tanvir Mir, Syed Pervez Ali Shah, Muhammad Abdul Nasir, Rai Nazir Ahmed and Ameer Muhammad khan.
