Five additional judges of Lahore High Court (LHC) took oath of their offices on Tuesday.
Chief Justice LHC Justice Azmat Saeed administered the oath to the new judges. The judges who took oath included Justice Abdus Sami Khan, Justice Ibadur Rehman Lodhi, Justice Shujaat Ali Khan, Justice Ayesha Malik and Justice Shahid Waheed. It should be mentioned that with appointment of five new additional judges total number of judges in LHC has reached 39 while 16 positions of the judges are still left vacant.
The legal community has expressed the hope that fresh appointments will help accelerate the hearing of the cases but they also demanded that the remaining vacant positions may be filled on priority basis so that people could get instance justice.
