QUETTA, Dec 29: A National Judicial (Policy Making) Com-mittee meeting decided on Monday that the proposed amendments in banking law/procedure would be examined by the committee secretariat and that the final draft thereof would be considered in a future meeting.

The meeting, presided over by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shaikh Riaz Ahmed, was held in the Balochistan High Court.

Participants of the meeting decided to avoid adjournments and ensure quick disposal of cases in future.

According to the meeting, all the courts at a particular station, namely civil courts as well as special courts and tribunals, will be housed together in a single judicial complex.

This arrangement would provide facility to lawyers, litigant parties and the people.

The participants also considered an automation plan to inter-link the superior courts and subordinate courts through Internet to facilitate their operations.

The committee also studied the case of judicial allowance to the subordinate court judges and a monetary relief equivalent to 10 per cent of the salary in terms of utility charges to the judges and staff of the subordinate courts.

These grants have already been recommended for implementation to the government.

The meeting took up the matter of delay in grant of the said allowance and resolved to forward a fresh case to provincial governments, asking them to speed up the process.

It examined the problem of delays caused in release of funds for various judicial projects under the access to justice programme and decided that a meeting of the committee should be convened in the near future, to which the principal secretary law and justice division, finance secretaries of federation and provinces be invited to streamline the process to release funds.

The committee expressed satisfaction over the pace of publication of the annual reports of the Supreme Court, Federal Shariat Court, high courts, and subordinate courts and tribunals.

The participants of the meeting were: Federal Shariat Court Chief Justice Ejaz Yousuf, BHC Chief Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Peshawar High Court CJ Mian Shakirullah Jan, and Dr Faqir Hussain, secretary of the National Judicial (Policy Making) Committee.