LHC case flow management system to go live soon

LAHORE: Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Chairman Dr Umar Saif has said that the Case Flow Management System for the Lahore High Court (LHC) will go live in 4-6 weeks which will help streamline and expedite cases benefiting the system and the litigants.

Dr Umar Saif who is also Adviser to CM on IT said this while addressing the 150th Anniversary Conference of Lahore High Court held at Aiwan-e-Iqbal. 

The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Zaheer Anwar Jamali, former Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Ch, LHC Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and a large number of judges and lawyers were present. 

The chief minister’s adviser highlighted the IT initiatives ventured with and for LHC and the work to automate operations of the Punjab judiciary. He said IT would become much prevalent in judiciary in times to come as it had become an integral part of all government businesses. He said: “The Case Flow Management System will facilitate the lawyers, judges, staff and litigants to have updates about the all cases.

PITB had also developed website of Lahore High Court that had got 27 million hits so far.”

He said an SMS service will send alerts to the litigants to get updates on their cases and added multidimensional ICT tools were being manipulated to gear up the prevalent justice system and provide the public with an easy access to the justice as it was envisioned by the present Chief Justice of LHC.

Dr Saif recited a motivational poem of Faiz Ahmad Faiz as clarion call for reforms in government and judiciary that received wide applause from the audiences.