Showing his unflinching determination for the promotion of quality legal and judicial education in the country Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Nasirul Mulk directed that urgent steps should be taken to expedite the legislation process in order to make the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) fully functional as the Centre of Excellence for Law and Judicial Education.
He expressed these views while presiding over the 39th meeting of the board of governors of the FJA in the Supreme Court Building on Saturday.
“At present, our entire focus is to make the FJU virtually functional as the Centre of Excellence for Law and Judicial Education,” said the justice, adding that a time will come when it will be considered to upgrade the centre into Federal University for Law and Judicial Education.
In order to attain this goal, the Law Ministry has to take practical steps so that the centre becomes a reality, said the learned judge.
In order to improve legal education and judicial training quality and efficiency and to enhance better coordination among the FJU and provincial judicial academies, the board also decided that a committee called National Judicial Education Coordination Committee, headed by the senior most chief justice of the high committee and comprising all directors general of the FJU and provincial judicial academies should be constituted.
“Increased consistency and sharing of standards are required. This committee has to be futuristic. It has to make strategies and plan trainings and sort out other issues of mutual interest. This multitasked committee also has to examine the syllabus and Annual Judicial Training Calendar. It has to standardise and redesign the ACR for judicial officers, etcetera. Such like committee is the need of the hour,” the CJP observed.
Lauding an item on the agenda regarding the Mobile Training Course for the district judiciary judges in all four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, the chairman and BoG members said, “Such trainings are crucial for the intensive and effective capacity building of judicial officers in important subjects of sentencing, communication skills, ADR/ reconciliation, case and court management, budget making and preparation.”
The proposed National Judicial Education Coordination Committee has to reflect on various aspects for these trainings because maximum number of judicial officers can benefit from these trainings at their respective duty stations, they said.
