Pakistan Lawyers Protest
Pakistan: Lawyers boycott dist courts against new rule for case allocation
Lahore, Pakistan: Members of Pakistan's Lahore Bar Association (LBA) observed a boycott of the district courts on Monday to protest against a newly-introduced mechanism of case allocation on the basis of tehsil and sub-division, media reports said on Monday.
For almost the whole day, the lawyers kept the entrance gates of the sessions court locked.
They denied access to judges and other court officials from entering the premises.
District and Sessions Judge Habibullah Amir held a dialogue with the bar leaders, but with no breakthrough. Later, the judge went to the Lahore High Court to take up the matter with the authorities concerned, reports The Dawn.
On the other side, LBA President Rao Sami announced the lawyers would continue their protest till the withdrawal of the notifications about the new mechanism of case allocation.
The sessions judge recently issued a notification regarding transfer of cases pending before civil courts at Aiwan-i-Adl to respective tehsils/sub-divisions the plaintiffs concerned belonged to. The decision was apparently taken in order to reduce the workload on the courts stationed at the Aiwan-i-Adl, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
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