Session on judicial system in Pakistan

A roundtable meeting in collaboration with Sharaiah Academy IIUI was organized on April 26, 2011 which was attended by Judges, lawyers, former officials of law enforcing agencies and law professors.

A roundtable meeting in collaboration with Sharaiah Academy IIUI was organized on April 26, 2011 which was attended by Judges, lawyers, former officials of law enforcing agencies and law professors.

The participants identified significant issues related to judicial system in Pakistan and observed that unless social justice was provided to the citizens and rule of law was upheld in all walks of life, mere increase in number of judges or courts or working hours of the judicial officers would not bring any real and meaningful change. It was emphasized that issues contributing to delay in dispensation of justice and discontent among public with respect to judicial system needed to be addressed. The participants noted that Supreme Court’s efforts to reform judiciary would bear fruit if these are accompanied with attention on investigation and prosecution departments of police as well.

It was also argued that the increasing gap between higher and lower judiciary, discriminatory variance of the terms of service of the judges in various provinces and the poor working conditions in which the judges work were the issues which needed the attention of the government to make the judiciary system effective.