ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain, on the advice of the prime minister, has signed the Federal Judicial Academy (Amendment) Ordinance 2014.

The ordinance converts the Federal Judicial Academy into a Centre of Excellence for Law and Judicial Education with a status of degree awarding institution and enhances its functions to offer programmes for the study of law specialised courses in specific disciplines and judicial education/training.

Educational institutions that have been providing education in subjects of law will be able to get affiliation from the Federal Judicial Academy.

Federal Judicial Academy was established under a government resolution in September 1988. It functioned at different locations in Islamabad till the completion of its present campus in 1994 at H-8/4, Islamabad. A legal cover to the organisation and functioning of the academy was provided with the enforcement of Federal Judicial Academy Act, 1997.

The academy provides training to new judges, magistrates, law officers and court personnel. It also holds conferences, seminars, workshops and symposia for improvement of the judicial system and quality of judicial work.

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