ISLAMABAD: All the fifteen Judges of the Supreme Court Thursday extended their congratulations to the newly elevated Chief Justice of Pakistan and reposed full confidence in his leadership.
They assured him of their whole hearted support and cooperation in his endeavours to advance the cause of justice and strengthen the system of administration of justice for the benefit of the litigant public.
In the first ever Full Court meeting which was held under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani here on Thursday, he assured to take steps to bring improvements not only at the superior courts level but also at District level judiciary.
"District Judiciary is the initial forum for providing access to justice to the people knocking the door of courts that is the place where the image of judiciary is either made or marred", the Chief Justice said.
The meeting was attended by Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany, Justice Amir Hani Muslim, Justice Ejaz Afzal Khan, Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry, Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Sh. Azmat Saeed, Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rahman and Justice Mushir Alam. Registrar of the Supreme Court Dr. Faqir Hussain also attended the meeting.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Chief Justice of Pakistan welcomed Judges participating in the Full Court meeting. The Chief Justice said that the purpose of the meeting was to take stock of the performance of the Supreme Court and discuss ways and means to ensure inexpensive and expeditious dispensation of justice in line with the mandate of the Constitution and augment the disposal of cases for redressal of grievances of the litigants.
The Full Court discussed in quite some details the institution and disposal of cases at the Principal seat and its Branch Registries and total pendency of different categories of cases on 11.12.2013 which was 20456.
The Full Court discussed in detail different strategies in order to address the issue of backlog and to provide relief to the litigant public and it was decided as under: The office shall prepare on urgent basis subject-wise categorization of cases including sub-categories, lists of cases to be fixed before two-member bench, three-member bench etc.
Proposed cause lists will be prepared/issued one month in advance. Cases of one advocate will not be fixed simultaneously at different stations/Branch Registries. Unnecessary adjournments will be discouraged.
In view of heavy pendency, Judges on the suggestion of Chief Justice of Pakistan volunteered to forego the coming winter vacations and benches will be constituted at the Principal seat as well as Branch Registries for hearing of cases.
The District Judiciary is under great pressure and needs to be supported and strengthened in terms of increase of strength of Judges and Court staff and all requisite infrastructure, he said.
He stated that he would take up the matter with the relevant quarters after formulation of appropriate measures in the meeting of National Judicial Policy Making Committee.
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