DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Chief Justice of the Peshawar High Court Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel on Saturday said that solid measures were being taken to facilitate law officials and litigants.

Addressing oath-taking ceremony of the district bar association and high court bar association, Dera bench, he said that a judicial complex was also being built at Pharpur tehsil at 50 kanal of land, adding that designing of the project was being readied.

Justice Miankhel said that judicial complexes would also be built at Darban, Kaluchi and Prova thesils. “These buildings will be built in consultation with the all the stakeholders, including lawyers, to provide best facilities under one roof,” he said.

The PHC chief justice said that family courts’ judges would be transferred to the district to ease workload and resolve family disputes swiftly. He added that a camp of service tribunal would also held in the district with at least two judges to facilitate the litigants who were seeking justice in service matters.

Justice Miankhel said that written examination for the posts of civil judges would be held in a month or two to overcome judges’ shortage in the province, which would help ease workload on courts.

Regarding start of LLM classes in the Gomal University, the PHC chief justice said he would keep close liaison with the vice-chancellor in that regard.

In addition to two computers and one photocopy machine, he also announced Rs150,000 for purchasing law books for libraries of the district bar association and high court bar association.

The PHC chief justice also inaugurated a block at the judicial complex, and a mosque and a canteen at the district courts.

Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2014