Lawyers have to understand that justice cannot be administered without their sincere and active cooperation.
ISLAMABAD: The quest for justice and the rule of law in Pakistan remains elusive. The key stakeholders of the administration of justice, particularly our lawyers, have to understand particularly that justice cannot be administered without their sincere and active cooperation. Paying lip service to the duty to cooperate isn’t good enough. However, a positive cultural change to the conduct of litigation is required in the community generally, although it must necessarily be led by courts and lawyers.
Precisely speaking, our courts and especially lawyers, must learn to think constructively from an early stage of dispute resolution about the real issues in a case, how they might be resolved without resort to expensive and lengthy litigation and if litigation is unavoidable, how it may most conveniently be conducted. The judicial training academies including the Federal Judicial Academy, Islamabad, and the provincial academies, among others, need to promote such thinking, sensitisation and culture so that justice and the rule of law may not remain elusive in this country.
Hashim Abro
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2013.
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