Judicial training: Incompetent judges have no future: CJ

20 district and sessions judges awarded certificates.

LAHORE:

“There is no future for the judges who will not deliver,” Lahore High Court Chief Justice Shaikh Azmat Saeed said on Friday, while addressing a ceremony held at the Punjab Judicial Academy.

The occasion was a distribute certificate distribution ceremony for district and sessions judges who had completed a five-day capacity building training course.

CJ Saeed said that the judges should focus on deciding cases on merit rather a just disposing of the cases to reduce the number of pending cases.

He said an independent was the only hope for the masses.

He said the number of pending cases in the province had become alarming on account of disproportionately small number of judges. He said he hoped such training courses will help improve the situation.

“It is a big issue and we have to overcome it,” he said.

Commenting on the training, he said, this was not an end, but a beginning. He said such trainings could only make a difference if judges worked together to improve the present situation in the country.

“We need a solution to the problems we face today, not those we faced in the past.”

The CJ said that the district and sessions courts were the backbone of the judiciary, and stressed the need to eradicate corruption.

Justice (retired) Tanveer Ahmed, the Punjab Judicial Academy’s director general, suggested that two-year practice requirement for civil judges be absolved.

The CJ then distributed certificates among 20 district and sessions judges.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 31^st, 2011.