[Pakistan] Chief Justice opens High Court IT pilot project

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

Dawn, 5 October 2002 

LAHORE: CJ opens IT pilot project 


By Our Reporter 

LAHORE, Oct 4: Chief Justice Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry of the Lahore 
High Court inaugurated a Rs6 million information technology pilot 
project in the court of Justice Asif Saeed Khosa here on Friday. 

Talking to newsmen on the occasion the chief justice said the project 
envisaged display of cause list of cases on monitors to be installed 
outside the court rooms and in the Lahore High Court Bar rooms. 

Justice Chaudhry said the project was being launched in three weeks 
after his announcement. 

It would be completed with the installation of monitors outside 50 
court rooms and in the Bar offices at Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi and 
Bahawalpur in six weeks. 

A certified copy of the judgments would be available the same evening 
the judgments were announced. 

Lahore High Court Bar Association president Muzammil Khan thanked the 
chief justice for accepting his proposal for using the IT to 
facilitate the lawyers community and the litigants. Moreover, 
judgments would be available on the LHC web site which would be in 
everybody's reach, he added. 

The project coordinator said arrangements could also be made for 
announcement of the titles of the cases outside the court room by 
installing sound amplifiers. 


source: http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/05/local16.htm