“About 240,000 additional cases could have been heard if it weren’t for 3,040 strikes by lawyers in 2017,” the chief justice said while addressing an event in Lahore. The LHC chief justice remarked that it makes no sense for lawyers to protest on issues which do not relate to Pakistan. On the tensions between the bar and the bench, the chief justice encouraged bar members to approach him and sort the issue out. How can this lead to disappointment?”The chief justice also pointed out that there was a misperception that courts were working. Sharing some statistics, he remarked that three million cases were filed before the court, of which verdicts were given in 2.1 million cases.

Source: The Express Tribune January 01, 2018 03:56 UTC