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CJ directs to expedite legislation process for operationalisation of FJA
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ISLAMABAD - Showing his unflinching determination for the promotion of quality legal and judicial education in Pakistan, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Nasirul Mulk on Saturday directed that urgent steps should be taken to expedite the legislation process in order to make the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) fully functional as the Center of Excellence (CoE) for Law and Judicial Education.
He expressed these views while presiding over the 39th meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Judicial Academy in the Supreme Court building on Saturday. He said, “at present, our entire focus is on this very important point to make the Federal Judicial Academy virtually functional as the CoE and then time will come and it will be considered to convert this CoE into the Federal University of Law and Judicial Education and for the attainment of this long avowed goal the Law Ministry has to put in practice its pragmatic efforts so that the CoE, which is of utmost importance, becomes a reality.”
In order to improve the legal education and judicial training quality and efficiency and also to enhance better coordination among the Federal Judicial Academy and provincial judicial academies, the board also decided that a committee called “National Judicial Education Coordination Committee”, headed by the senior most Chief Justice of the High Committee and comprising all the directors general of the Federal Judicial Academy and provincial judicial academies should be constituted. “Increased consistency and sharing of standards are required. This committee has to be futuristic. It has to strategies and plan trainings and sort-out other issues of mutual interest. This multitasks-committee has also to examine the syllabus and Annual Judicial Training Calendar. It has to standardise and redesign the ACR for the judicial officers, etc. Such like committee is the need of the hour” he observed.
Lauding an item on the agenda regarding the Mobile Training Course for the district judiciary judges in all four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan the Chairman and BoG members said, “Such like trainings are crucial for the intensive and effective capacity building of the judicial officers in very important subjects such as sentencing, communication skills, ADR/reconciliation, case and court management, budget making and preparation. The proposed National Judicial Education Coordination Committee has to reflect on various aspects for these trainings because maximum number of judicial officers can benefit from these trainings at their respective duty stations.”
The BoG also took up other matters placed on the agenda like approval of budget of the academy, provision of amenities in family court and training of family court judges, concept paper on strategy/ action plan to operalitionise the CLEJE, (Draft) FJA Service Rules, 2007, uniform draft rules for linking confirmation/promotion of judicial officers with training requirement, etc. discussed at length. The BoG received the progress report on completion of Phase–II extension building of the FJA and directed for its early completion. The BoG also approved amendment in the allocation of accommodation rates in the FJA hostel.
The meeting was attended by Federal Minister for Law, Justice Pervaiz Rashid, BoG, FJA, and honourable members: High Court of Sindh Chief Justice Justice Maqbool Baqar, Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Justice Kh Imtiaz Ahmad, High Court of Balochistan Chief Justice Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Special Secretary Justice (retired) Muhammad Raza Khan, Federal Judicial Academy Director General Dr Faqir Hussain, Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi, Ministry of Finance Additional Secretary Haq Nawaz (on special invitation) and FJA Director (Administration) Khalid Amin Khan Tareen also attended the meeting.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk