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    The new Chief Justice of the Punjab High Court has prioritized eliminating corruption from the judiciary and improving the functioning of the district judiciary. Several judges have been sent for training to improve competence. A third reform element is improving relations between lawyers and judges. There are over 1.3 million pending cases in the LHC, showing why people use the judiciary to delay rather than get justice. Other provincial judiciaries need their own reform agendas to address issues like the large backlog of cases.

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    The new Chief Justice of the Punjab High Court has prioritized eliminating corruption from the judiciary and improving the functioning of the district judiciary. Several judges have been sent for training to improve competence. A third reform element is improving relations between lawyers and judges. There are over 1.3 million pending cases in the LHC, showing why people use the judiciary to delay rather than get justice. Other provincial judiciaries need their own reform agendas to address issues like the large backlog of cases.

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    Judicial reforms

    July 19, 2016


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    A new chief justice has taken charge of the Punjab judiciary. Reputed to be an
    innovative and principled judge during his time in the Lahore High Court, the new
    LHC Chief Justice Mansoor Ali Shah has set up eliminating corruption from the
    judiciary as the main aim of its tenure. He has correctly identified the primary focus
    as the improvement of the functioning of the district judiciary. The second target will
    be improving the competence of judges. For that, several judges have been sent for
    judicial training. The third element of the judicial reform will be on improving the
    relationship between lawyers and judges, especially the behaviour of the latter
    towards the former. It is good to see that the LHC CJ has looked within the judiciary
    first for improvement. The CJ could have easily pointed to external factors, such as
    the increased incidence of lawyers violence towards judges or the increased security
    threat facing judges. He chose to look inwards. One can only control what is within
    ones own domain. It is good that the LHC CJ recognises this.
    The need for judicial reform is obvious throughout the country. Each provincial
    judiciary will have to take on the agenda. The biggest issue remains the large log of
    unresolved cases, some of which go back to at least four decades. There are at least
    1.3 million cases still pending within the LHC. Let the number sink in. The fact that
    there is such a large case log still pending shows why people turn to the judiciary to
    delay justice, rather than get justice. The LHC CJ has stated that improving the
    judiciary is no rocket science. But somehow, despite years of attempting to change
    how the judiciary works, there has been limited progress. Even the judicial
    movement against the Musharraf dictatorship and the judicial reform led by former
    Supreme Court CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry was unable to institute any structural change.
    The LHC full court bench has also taken on the long-standing demand to create five
    more LHC benches as well as increasing the number of judges from 60 to 100. It has
    decided against the new benches on the logic that doing so would remove the
    difference between the district and the high court. This seems like a sensible
    decision. The LHC CJ has struck the right notes. This is in line with SC CJ Anwar
    Jamalis attempts to keep the judiciary out of prolonged political wrangling over
    issues such as the Panama leaks. The control of the lower judiciary remains much
    more with the provincial high court CJs who can oversee the finer details of judicial
    reform. The LHC CJ has taken the bold step of setting out an agenda for reforming
    the provinces judiciary. It is important that other provincial judiciaries follow suit.

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