CJ hails launching of Federal Law Journal

Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has said that judicial education emerged as a specialised discipline across the globe for proper and expeditious discharge of judicial functions and it has a critical role in the grooming of judicial officers.

Addressing a ceremony in connection with the launching of the first research journal of the Federal Judicial Academy, the chief justice appreciated the efforts of the academy and the editorial board of the journal.

Chief Justice Bandial said that this initiative would provide a platform to the judicial officers as well as all the stakeholders associated with the justice sector to contribute to the legal knowledge.

“There is a need to ameliorate the standard of legal education and promote research culture within judiciary and to encourage critical thinking and expression of ideas over different coexistent legal issues,” Chief Justice Bandial told the ceremony.

On the occasion, the director research and publication presented an overview of the Federal Law Journal and briefed the participants about the content of prefatory issue.

Hayat Ali Shah, the director general of the academy, in his welcome address, gave an overview of the course. At the end of the ceremony, the chief justice awarded certificates to the trainee district and sessions judges and the law interns.