ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Director-General of the Federal Judicial Academy presented the annual report of the academy to Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice Sh Riaz Ahmed here on Saturday.

The report presents a detail of various activities of the Academy during the financial year 2002-2003.

The director-general observed that development of an expanding curriculum was the biggest achievement of the previous year. He said the experiences of the Academy’s faculty had contributed a lot towards development of the curriculum.

He said the faculty consisted of sitting and retired judges of district judiciary, who were directly concerned with the administration of justice and were fully conversant with trial methods, substantive and procedural laws, difficulties faced by the judges in expeditious disposal of cases and the challenge of growing public criticism of the quality of judicial work.

The chief justice said a curriculum review committee had been set up for periodic update of the curriculum. This step ensured the faculty’s association with development of curricula and religious commitment to the study of new social relations that had developed in the wake of behavioural changes and paradigm shifts in attitudes, environment, values and culture.— A Reporter