ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APS): Full Court meeting of the Supreme Court Tuesday expressed complete satisfaction over the disposal of cases and decided to constitute special benches of the apex court for the quick disposal of criminal and civil cases including jail petitions.
According to the press release issued by the Supreme Court here on Tuesday about the decisions of the Full Court meeting, at least one bench for hearing of cases involving death sentence and two benches for civil appeals will be constituted. The concerned office of the apex court has been directed to prepare category wise/year wise lists of cases and place the same before the Chief Justice of Pakistan for constitution of appropriate benches.
chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar presided over the meeting and all 15 judges of the Supreme Court attended the meeting.
Judges who attended the meeting were Justice Muhammad Nawaz Abbasi, Justice
Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, Justice Javed Buttar, Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad, Justice Ijazul Hassan, Justice Mohammad Qaim Jan Khan, Justice Mohammad Moosa K. Leghari, Justice Ch. Ejaz Yousaf, Justice Muhammad Akhtar Shabbir, Justice Zia Perwez, Justice Mian Hamid Farooq, Justice Syed Sakhi Hussain Bukhari, Justice Syed Zawwar Hussain Jaffery, Justice Sheikh Hakim Ali and Justice Muhammad Farrukh Mahmood.
The full court reviewed the pendency, institution and disposal of cases over the last four months. In the beginning of November 2007, the Court had a pendency of 14474 cases while 3505 more cases were filed during this period out of which 2690 cases were disposed of leaving a balance of 15289 cases.
The Full Court meeting examined the details of the different categories of pending cases.
Currently, there are 5255 civil petitions, 473 civil review petitions, 4800
civil appeals, 1083 criminal petitions, 1869 criminal petitions, 604 jail petitions, etc.
The Full Court meeting noted that proper attention could not be paid to the
disposal of cases during the year 2007, which led to the piling up backlog. However, the Court expressed its satisfaction over the pace of disposal during the last four and a half months, the press release said.
The Full Court also directed the concerned office to give priority in fixation of cases filed against interim orders in a much due to the pendency of such matters, cases remain pending before the lower forums and do not attain finality.
The Chief Justice also appreciated the dedicated efforts of the judges of the Supreme Court for speedy disposal of the cases.
The meeting also considered matters related to the welfare of the retired judges of the Supreme Court and directed the office to facilitate retired judges in every possible way.
The Full Court also examined the proposal of the office for up-gradation of posts of Supreme Court employees and enhancement of judicial allowance.
However, the Full Court directed the office to place these matters along with necessary details in the next meeting of the Full Court.
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