Delay Reduction in Court Cases in Pakistan
Growing as a legal phenomenon and finding its traces in the jurisprudential history of the World, delay in deciding cases brought before the Honorable Courts of any given country has proven itself to be a persistent challenge. Every jurisdiction has strived to formulate effective mechanisms to successfully combat this problem and there is a huge reservoir of legal models that can be analyzed for adoption of a secure yet, efficacious delay reduction technique.
A pay raise and monetary incentives offered to Judicial Officers for better performance with introduction of law reforms and ADR strategies, while better public awareness campaigns and information kiosks should be established in courts for easy access of general public. The Access to Justice Program had a positive impact on court performance, management, litigant public, Advocates and developmental and business activities, The influx of cases has been increased and thus backlogs of old and new cases requiring immediate steps to address the limiting factors hampering progress of cases.
The Bench-Bar Liaison Committee; Criminal Justice Coordination Committee and Citizen-Court Liaison Committee at District level have been formulated to facilitate the Courts to have better insight of the problems faced by general public and to address them with the active participation of Advocates, Police and public representatives.
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