Need of Judicial Reforms in Pakistan: Ensuring Accountability and Transparency in Courts

Abstract

A strong legal system, founded on the sacred principles of justice, forms the bedrock of a civilized society. Unfortunately, Pakistan’s legal framework has not kept pace with the burgeoning demands of its people, leading to a backlog of cases, delayed justice, and widespread disillusionment. The primary objective of this paper is to give those reforms which can help in reducing the burden of cases since there are approximately more than two million cases that are undergoing trial in Pakistani courts. Justice in Pakistan has become a myth and an unaccessible tool due to delay in justice which is basically its denial and some of the reasons are discussed in this Article. The methodology used in this paper is Doctrinal and data is collected from Various Books, Articles, blogs and news papers. In Pakistan, Justice has become both a dream and an impossible goal so at first instance the research discuss the need of reforms, Secondly The study differentiate the reasons in non delivery of justice and delayed delivery of justice, In result this Article contributes in minimizing the culture of Adjournments and system of unaccountability in Pakistan specially in lower courts, so the justice can be prevailed, In the end it suggests the Practical Reforms in a very detail for revival of justice in Pakistan.