LAHORE, Oct 4: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court inaugurated a Rs6 million information technology pilot project in the court of Justice Asif Saeed Khosa here on Friday.

Talking to newsmen on the occasion the chief justice said the project envisaged display of cause list of cases on monitors to be installed outside the court rooms and in the Lahore High Court Bar rooms.

Justice Chaudhry said the project was being launched in three weeks after his announcement.

It would be completed with the installation of monitors outside 50 court rooms and in the Bar offices at Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi and Bahawalpur in six weeks.

A certified copy of the judgments would be available the same evening the judgments were announced.

Lahore High Court Bar Association president Muzammil Khan thanked the chief justice for accepting his proposal for using the IT to facilitate the lawyers community and the litigants. Moreover, judgments would be available on the LHC web site which would be in everybody’s reach, he added.

The project coordinator said arrangements could also be made for announcement of the titles of the cases outside the court room by installing sound amplifiers.