LAHORE, Feb 4: The Law and Justice Commission has taken serious note of decline in the standard of legal education with observation that any person who cannot succeed in any professional or other examination get admission to law colleges especially those which do not have any regular faculty and after getting the LL.B degree adopt legal profession.

The commission further observed that despite a heavy enrolment in the bar councils there is hard to find a suitable person to be inducted in the lower judiciary or elevated to the superior judiciary.

The commission appreciated the recent change in legal education policy of the government of Punjab by making five years graduation in law.

It constituted a committee headed by the Chief Justice, Lahore High Court, and comprising Mr Justice (retd) Amirul Mulk Mengal, Mr Justice (retd) Qazi Muhammad Farooq, Mrs Nasira Iqbal and Mr Abdul Qadir Halepota to consider the system of legal education, stopping the evening classes and affiliation of ghost law colleges with the universities and make a report for consideration of the commission on priority basis.

The committee may also consider the effect of induction of retired personnel in the legal profession on the future of youngster and newcomer in the legal field.

The commission also desired that the committee may explore the ways of having the holders of first division LL. B. degree attached with the senior members of the bar. The committee may co-opt with Mr Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid and the Higher Education Commission. —APP