Friday 22 January 2010

Should justice be delivered at every cost?

. Friday 22 January 2010

Chief Justice of Pakistan has Justice should be delivered at every cost:

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Thursday said that justice must be delivered regardless of how heavy price you pay for it.
Speaking at a ceremony in the Supreme Court of Pakistan here, the Chief Justice said it was a testing time and urged the people to pray for them.
Reading the famous saying of Hazrat Ali (A.S.), the Chief Justice said: “A rule of Kufr (infidelity) can survive but a rule of injustice can't.”
“We are waging a struggle for such a society where justice is available to everyone,” he added.
He said that people showed faith in judiciary because of its principled stand and vowed that judiciary would not break the peoples’ trust. The chief justice feared that hopelessness would arise if courts would not deliver justice.

Justice is the strong relation among judiciary, lawyers and people, he said, adding that people want to see independent courts working in line with the Constitution.
“Thank God, lawyers have lived up to the expectations of people,” remarked Justice Chaudhry. He noted that the main concern of a common man is an immediate delivery of justice as he does not understand the legal complications.
The Chief Justice further said expectations are high from the young lawyers, who led the lawyers’ movement from the front.
He said that number of family and civil judges was being increased, saying 100 civil judges have been hired in Punjab while recommendations have been forwarded to the government for the appointment of civil judges in NWFP.
Justice Chaudhry also expressed his desire to see more women judges in the courts. “The issue of appointing women judges is also included in the agenda of national judicial policy.”

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