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Bar associations to get free online access

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Technology Minister Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari on Friday inaugurated an e-justice programme to provide Pakistan’s bar associations easy online access to international statutes and case laws.

Leghari launched the project’s first part by inaugurating Multan District Bar Association’s automation, which also marks a simultaneous provision of online legal information to 30 other bar associations of Punjab for two years, said a press release issued on Friday.

The IT Ministry launched the project at a cost of Rs 40 million to automate all bar associations, including offices of Pakistan’s higher judiciary. In the project’s first phase, 31 bar associations of the Punjab, have been provided online access to statutory and case laws while the province’s remaining bar associations would be automated in the next few weeks.

Leghari said the project “Access to Statutory and Case Laws” was an extension of an earlier programme in which the IT Ministry provided 82 bar associations online access to statutory and case laws for three years which ended in April this year. Among the beneficiaries of the previous programme were 31 bar associations from Punjab, 16 from Sindh, 21 from NWFP, three from Balochistan, nine tax bar associations and three registry offices of the Lahore High Court.

He said the ministry had come up with this programme because of “a very positive feedback”.

Leghari said the earlier programme had helped judges and lawyers in remote areas have access to all sorts of legal information and led to the creation of many jobs besides efficiency in justice delivery and related public services.

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