Mobile courts ready to provide speedy justice in KPK

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PESHAWAR:

Parked at the Peshawar Development Authority office in Hayatabad, the country’s first mobile court decided 28 cases on its first actual working day on Tuesday, without moving an inch.

Of the total, 23 criminal and five civil cases were decided inside the court. Two other cases were referred to mediators to bring both parties to a mutual understanding.

The first case resolved was an ongoing dispute over splitting Rs0.6 million in commissions. Through mediators, both sides agreed to divide the amount in half.

For the purpose of the mobile court, mediators are lawyers trained in settling through negotiation. After both parties reach a decision, they present it to the judge. In this case, mobile court judge Fazl-e-Wadood issued the verdict.

At a media briefing, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Academy Director General Hayat Ali Shah said cases of civil matters and petty crimes would be solved through mediators at the petitioners’ doorstep.

“The district and sessions judge will prepare the schedule for cases to be heard, after which the mobile court will be sent to relevant areas. Cases involving juveniles will also be resolved by the court,” explained Shah.

Responding to a question about increasing the number of buses and types of cases, the director said it would depend on feedback based on the current mobile court. At the moment, there were plans to have mobile courts in each district of the province. If disputes between two organisations could be resolved through mediators, then these will also be taken to the mobile court, added Shah.

“We have trained 18 mediators and eight judges specifically for this court. We plan to conduct four more training sessions before the year ends. The total number of mediators should reach 72 with 32 judges.”

District and Sessions Judge Shabbir Khan explained cases which come to him through the lower court would be compiled on a schedule and the mobile court would then travel to the relevant area.

The Justice on Wheels project was inaugurated by Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan in July with financial support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The mobile court was inaugurated on July 27 when it disposed off six cases.

 

[W.11]

instead of mobile courts they should work on district level courts, local courts etc

there should be local courts based on every district, every town and rural town

 

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Pakistan launches mobile mediation court to help back logged court


PESHAWAR: Pakistani officials have begun offering mediation in a mobile courtroom to test whether it can help clear clogged courts.

The courtroom-on-a-bus will mediate small civil cases, minor criminal cases and juvenile cases, Hayat Ali Shah, the head of the provincial judicial academy, said Wednesday.

Cases can drag on for decades in Pakistan - there are 1.4 million pending nationally.

Some families of victims, frustrated with the moribund courts, turn to all-male gatherings of elders called jirgas instead. These offer instant decisions, but have sentenced people to be buried alive, gang-raped or stoned to death.

Judicial problems have also helped win the Taliban support when the militants offered Islamic courts dispensing swift justice.

Officials hope that new mediation can offer an alternative to the Taliban courts and traditional jirgas.

“Through this system we are trying to institutionalize mediation so that there is less of a chance that a citizen’s rights will be violated,” Shah said.

The mobile court heard 29 cases in its wood paneled courtroom on its first day in Peshawar on Tuesday. It freed juveniles from jail, heard property disputes and imposed small fines.

“I got justice within 10 minutes in the mobile court. My case was running for the past six months in the court of the civil judge,” property dealer Adnan Khan said.

The government hopes to launch 11 more buses this year with funding from the UN.

But lawyer Salman Raja said mediation could only work in small cases. For serious crimes, Pakistan needed more judges and better training for police, lawyers and judges, he said.

Pakistan launches mobile mediation court to help back logged court – The Express Tribune

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can we have someone to merge the threads http://www.defence.pk/forums/national-political-issues/261198-mobile-courts-ready-provide-speedy-justice-kpk.html
http://www.defence.pk/forums/social-issues-current-events/261271-courts-wheels.html and http://www.defence.pk/forums/social-issues-current-events/261271-courts-wheels.html
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instead of mobile courts they should work on district level courts, local courts etc

there should be local courts based on every district, every town and rural town

Well this is also not a bad idea...as it is like mediation ....for small cases or straight fwd cases which can be closed with ease and hence the courts can work on complex cases ...division of labor

 

[Khalidr]

By providing quick justice, this will slowly create the fear of Law in people minds, A good move by KPK, if an easy justice is available the perpetrators will also think twice rather than not even caring about fear of law as before.