Lahore High Court(LHC) Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial presided over a symposium on the identification of the problems faced by litigants, their causes and solution in matters arising under section 22-A,22-B,497 and 498 Cr.P C as the courts are heavily burdened with these issues.
The main purpose of this event was to pinpoint the difficulties arising from litigation instituted under the said provisions of law, their causes and the extent to which administrative solutions could be adopted to reduce the backlog of cases.
While speaking on the occasion, LHC chief justice said that all of us were stakeholders within the system of justice and it was our prime responsibility to make wholehearted efforts to reduce inordinate delay in the dispensation of justice and curtail unnecessary expenses of the litigant public.
The chief justice advised the judges to go by the book in all circumstances, adding that at the end of the day everyone would be answerable to Allah Almighty. He also said that objective ACRs should be written according to the actual performance and conduct of the officials as it would considerably improve the system.
Justice Saghir Ahmad Qadri, Justice Nasir Saeed Shiekh, Justice Shiekh Najm ul Hasan, Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik, Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Rauf Ahmad Sheikh, Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu, Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Abdul Sattar Asghar and Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa also graced the occasion.
Registrar Abdul Sattar conducted the proceedings while Inquiries, Research and Development Sessions Judge Javaid Rashid Mahboobi raised some key points regarding registration of cases and its impact on the working of courts.
Executive Committee of the Punjab Bar Council’s Chairman and Vice Chairman, presidents and general secretaries of bar associations of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur and Multan shared their experiences and knowledge at the symposium.
Advocate General (AG), Inspector General (IG) Police and Prosecutor General as well as Secretary Prosecution Punjab also attended the symposium.
