It’s time to remove weaknesses: LHC CJ

Judicial officers’ training

Says every officer to undergo extensive training before posting; performance to be evaluated; ‘bench books’ to be compiled; stresses no institution can grow without training

LAHORE: Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court Syed Mansoor Ali Shah said on Friday the weaknesses of the judicial academy would not be concealed, rather it was time to remove them.

Addressing an award distribution ceremony of the Training of Trainers Programme at the Punjab Judicial Academy (PJA), Lahore, he said that judicial officers’ performance would be evaluated by a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation mechanism and its reports would become part of their service record, which shall be taken into account in the matter of promotions and transfers.

The CJ said that no institution could progress without training of its human resource.The ceremony was also attended by Sardar Tahir Sabir, officiating registrar of LHC, Uzma Chughtai, PJA Director General, Dr Livingston Armytage, Director, Centre for Judicial Studies, Australia, and John Lipton, Team Leader, European Union’s Punjab Access to Justice Project.

Enlightening the participants about the future vision of PJA, the CJ said that before posting in the field, every new judicial officer shall undergo six months extensive pre-service training programme based on knowledge, skill and attitude approach at PJA to ensure that the rights of public at large are adjudicated upon by professional, competent and expert judicial officers.