Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Justice Dost Muhammad Khan has said that judicial education is now being given due consideration and after the FederalJudicialAcademy in the federal capital area, the provinces have also followed the suit in establishing their academies.
However, the FederalJudicialAcademy, Islamabad has distinctive role where judicial officers from all over Pakistan are invited to receive training on divergent topics of law.
The judge advised the trainee judges to work with devotion and learn how to control the proceedings before them and not allow unnecessary and lengthy cross-examination on witnesses.
Justice Dost Muhammad Khan while distributing certificates to judges, who attended one week training course on “Appreciation of Evidence and Management of Criminal Trial before Magistrates” stressed upon the judges to have command over relevant laws for dispensation of justice. He also advised the Civil Judges-cum-Judicial Magistrates to grasp knowledge as to how evidence collected by using modern devices was to be received and should be able to distinguish between admissible and inadmissible evidence.
Earlier, senior director of the academy presented his welcome remarks and gave an over view of the course. The one week long course was attended by twenty two civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates from all over Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir.
