Amendment: LHC returns scores of cases to district courts

Lawyer Malik Naeem said the amendment would make no difference


Rana Yasif August 24, 2016
Lawyer Malik Naeem said the amendment would make no difference. PHOTO: FILE

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) has sent hundreds of civil appeals regarding matters valuing less than Rs50 million to district courts in the light of a new amendment to the Punjab Civil Courts (Amendment) Ordinance 2016.

The amendment is aimed at easing the burden of cases on the high court.

Lahore High Court acting registrar Sardar Tahir Sabir said the government had made amendment and the LHC was just implementing it. The LHC has sent about 2,000 cases to district and sessions courts.

Before passage of this amendment, appeals against orders of civil judges in cases involving more than Rs2,500,000 were being filed in the LHC. Now the LHC will hear appeals in cases valuing Rs50,000,000 or above and additional district and sessions judges will take up appeals in cases valuing less than Rs50,000,000.

LHC spokesperson Arif Javed Dar said the court had sent about 2,000 cases to district courts in Sargodha, Gujranwala and Faisalabad divisions and more than 600 cases to the district and sessions courts of Lahore.

Talking to The Express Tribune, lawyer Azhar Siddique said that sending cases to district courts would not serve the purpose. He said there was a need to take measures to dispense justice to litigants. He said the decision to return cases to district courts would not benefit the litigants.

Lawyer Malik Naeem said the amendment would make no difference. He said that litigants should be dispensed justice in any case.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2016.

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