SIALKOT: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Muhammad Qasim Khan has stressed the need for a swift trial of cases pending due to the coronavirus pandemic, under the Case Management System for providing justice to litigants.

The chief justice urged judges and lawyers to play their pivotal role in ensuring the rule of law and justice in society.He said that rule of law and justice was vital for national development and prosperity.

He stated this while addressing an important meeting of lawyers at the district bar association on Tuesday.

DBA President Syed Ali Najam Gilani presided over the meeting. District and Sessions Judge Ali Nawaz, additional district and sessions court judges, civil judges, magistrates and senior lawyers also attended the meeting.

Justice Khan said the judiciary and lawyers community should utilize their full energies with positive attitude to dispense early justice to the people.

He stressed the need for promoting good working relations between the bar and the bench to dispense justice to the local poor, oppressed and needy people at local level.

He said justice was the basic right of everyone.

On the demand of the Sialkot lawyers, the chief justice pledged to ask federal and provincial governments for the early establishment of an anti-terrorism court, a banking court and an FIA court in Sialkot besides shifting the consumer court at Sialkot city.

He said the early establishment of these courts at Sialkot would be helpful in providing relief to the local people at local level.

He said these courts would soon be established at Sialkot.

He also asked the local judiciary for the early measurement of the land at Sialkot Kutchery so that it could be handed over the land to lawyers for chambers there.

The chief justice also planted a sapling on the lawns of the Sialkot DBA and visited the monument for slain judges, who were killed in Sialkot jail tragedy on July 25, 2003. He offered Fateha there.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2020