Justice System

Report highlights critical deficiencies in justice system

Vows to keep the torch burning for justice, warns 'clock is ticking for govt'

Vicinity to also house lawyers’ chambers

CJP Gulzar Ahmed says Pakistan's legal system had evolved through indigenous experiences

Petitioner says magistrate’s observation was influenced by departmental order

Judicial officers would pursue criminal and civil cases

Sarina Isa says her agricultural income is sufficient to justify purchase of three properties in UK

Commission to only consider ‘substantive’ orders for job confirmation

Punjab law ministry forwards summary to the competent authority

PHC CJ Waqar Ahmed Seth to inaugurate court

BNP leader says lawyers remain deprived of justice

PTI Minister says judicial reforms have become imperative

Supreme Court Bar Association says govt move based on ‘ill-will and malice’

Chief Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth says seniority principle has been violated in recent appointments

SHC says bail pleas are to be given priority, with inmates being at increased risk

We appreciate the fact that our judiciary is ever so ready to serve the litigants even in dire situations such as this

PBC asks all high courts to follow IHC’s example to avoid virus in crowded jails

NJPMC –administrative body of top judges – to get briefing on coronavirus prevention tomorrow

SAPM says premier supports law minister in all matters within law, Constitution

Chief justice is also chairman of NJPMC, which examines judiciary’s performance

When justice is delayed and hence denied, the pomp of police reforms becomes meaningless

Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah says criminal justice system poses serious risk for state & society

19-page ruling speaks of significance of Article 121, QSO and Section 342, CrPC

Justice Gulzar Ahmed attributes failure in achieving Constitution's goals to the 'unwillingness of functionaries'

Disqualified two premiers Gillani and Sharif as well as three dozen MNAs since 2009

Govt seeks 'in-camera hearing' of its review plea against top court judgement on reappointment/extension of COAS

Calls for ‘preservation of two leading institutions’ for ‘healthy democracy’; requests for in-camera...

CJP Gulzar Ahmed faces thorny issue of Supreme Court judge nomination

Full-court reference held at SC to bid farewell to outgoing chief justice

CJP was unhappy over undue interference by the high courts to halt treason proceedings in the last three weeks

Justice Khosa says APS carnage forced Pakistan to reconsider its approach against terror

Minimum traffic, avoiding public nuisance and welfare of policemen among goals of new methods

Will provide expeditious justice to children in contact or in conflict with the law

Official says this will reduce data entry redundancy and processing

There are a number of issues that require reform in Pakistan’s judicial system to improve foreign investment

Argues giving litigants right of appeals against judgments under Article 184(3)

Apex court would allow fair criticism but will not tolerate any attack on judiciary, observes top judge

The outrage being expressed at the acquittal of Shah Hussain for his attack on Khadija Siddiqui is different

Most children do not report the crime because they are afraid of what will happen to them

We don’t have to do away with the system, only remove the cancer that has plagued it

Findings show only a tiny fraction of all disputes goes to courts

Sources say govt cannot budge from its stance in view of consensus of majority parties

Study reveals 6 people already executed who were juvenile at the time of their alleged crime

Much action focused on bench-bar tussle after SC’s September judgement on hiring

Justice (retd) Rehmat Hussain Jaffery divides judicial system into three components

Swabi Bar Association President Latif Afridi and Advocate Arshad Ali also spoke on the occasion

Will take up Farhatullah Babar’s bill next week

EU experts highlight problems in judicial procedures at symposium

Speakers get together at seminar to re-engineer the public justice system

Bad governance is giving rise to uncivilised behavior, says Arab