LAHORE, Sept 22: At least five per cent seats will be reserved for women in the selection and posting of civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates by the Lahore High Court.

This was decided in a meeting of the LHC administration committee headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry here on Friday.

The high court, it may be added, has been allowed by the Punjab government to select civil judges to fill vacant seats in the province. Earlier, the same job was done by the Public Service Commission.

The Friday’s meeting which considered the hiring of 100 civil judges also decided that qualification and age of applicants would be the same as prescribed under the Punjab Judicial Service Rules, 1994.

Application forms would be distributed and received by the LHC registrar office. The selection would be on the basis of a written test and interview.

The written test would be on two subjects, civil law and criminal law, having 50 marks each. A candidate will have to obtain 50 per cent marks in aggregate to qualify for the interview.

Copies of the advertisement would be sent to the district and sessions judges in Punjab/Islamabad and additional registrars of LHC benches for displaying them outside the courtrooms.

The application form would also be recommended by the D&SJ concerned, verifying antecedents of each candidate.

Likewise, the meeting decided that the written examination would be held at the principal seat and ad benches of this court.

INTERIM INJUNCTIONS: Member of the Lahore High Court inspection team, on behalf of the chief justice, has directed all judicial officers to dispose of applications filed in different cases in which interim injunctions have been issued and civil appeals arising, therefrom, before the end of the year and pay attention to main cases.