ISLAMABAD, Sept 22: Chief Justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar said on Monday endless litigation sometimes leads frustrated litigants to take to violence and urged the lawyers’ community to help ensure expeditious and inexpensive justice to people.

He was speaking at the seventh roll signing ceremony of advocates of the Supreme Court. More than 185 advocates signed the roll, raising the number of lawyers practising in the apex court to 3,273.

“I would call upon them (the lawyers) to play their role in ensuring expeditious and inexpensive justice to the general public, to the victims of crime, to the innocent and falsely implicated accused persons or convicted prisoners languishing in jails whose families suffer untold miseries, to the litigants in civil disputes whose precious time and money are spent in the pursuit of unending litigation, which sometimes, rather many a time, gives rise to violence, to taking the law in one’s own hand,” observed the chief justice.

Justice Dogar said that as many deserving lawyers had not been enrolled in the past, the roll signing process had been introduced.

The CJ acknowledged that it was the first time in history of the apex court that such a large number of advocates had been enrolled and there were several reasons for it.