Pending cases: Law Ministry has no access to records from January 2018

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Law and Justice has said that it has no access to records of pending cases in high courts of the country since January 2018, ARY News reported on Friday.

The ministry has rejected for having the latest statistics regarding pending trials in high courts as the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) was due to provide access to its officials to records.

The ministry submitted its written reply in the Senate which sought the latest record on the number of pending cases in high courts.

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The reply stated that the ministry was in talks with the commission for the provision of the data. The commission told the law ministry for not having the required records.

The ministry in its reply said that 36,921 cases were currently pending in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) in accordance with record till August 2018 while 88,931 cases in the Sindh High Court (SHC) till January 2019.

It had emerged on February 6 – 2019 that 6,407 cases had been filed in the Supreme Court between Jan 1 – 2018 and Dec 31 – 2018. Of them, 6,342 cases were settled and subsequently disposed of.

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The full court meeting had been chaired by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa with all judges of the apex court in attendance notied that currently 40,535 cases were pending in the apex court. The meeting expressed satisfaction on the ratio of settled and pending cases.

In December last year, Minister for Law and Justice had told the Senate that 350,447 cases were pending with the Supreme Court and five high courts.

The minister, while providing statistics to the Upper House, had said that as on October 15 this year, 39,742 cases were pending with the Supreme Court, 16,580 cases with the Lahore High Court, 91,548 cases with the Sindh High Court, 29,449 cases with the Peshawar High Court, 6,852 cases with the Balochistan High Court and 17,056 cases with the Islamabad High Court.

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