LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) principal seat and its three regional benches have disposed of as many as 95,762 cases during the last seven months from January to July.

A statement issued about the other day full-court meeting of the LHC judges, states as many as 53,955 cases have been decided at principal seat Lahore, 24,174 at Multan, 11,221 at Bahawalpur and 6,412 at Rawalpindi bench.

The statement does not provide the statistics of the pending cases, however, it says 91,000 new cases have been instituted at the LHC [all seats] during the last seven months.

It reveals that the district judiciary of Punjab decided over 1.6 million cases during the same period. Out of which, the sessions courts decided 40,000 cases while civil and magisterial courts adjudicated over 1.2m cases.

The statement says as many as 1.16m new cases have been instituted in the civil and sessions courts during this period. It claims the statistics of decided cases remained more than the newly filed cases in the district judiciary.

The federal and provincial ex-cadre courts, special courts and tribunals decided 72,545 cases.

The full court meeting presided over by Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti also expressed sorrow and grief over the plight of the citizens affected by massive floods in the country.

The meeting decided that all judges of the LHC would donate their two-day salary in the prime minister’s relief fund.

The officers of the LHC from BS-15 to 17 will donate their one-day salary while officers of BS-17 and above will donate two-day salary in the fund. The judges and the officers of the district judiciary will also donate their salaries to the fund.

POSTINGS: The LHC has made transfers and postings of 81 senior civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates in Punjab for allocating the work of appropriate division in order of seniority.

Through another notification, the LHC granted time-scale personal upgradation from BS-21 to BS-22 to District and Sessions Judge Ijaz Hassan Awan, at present presiding judge of a special court (central-I) Lahore and District and Sessions Judge Tahir Nawaz Khan, currently posted at Labour Court No.1 Lahore.

Published in Dawn, September 7th, 2022