SARGODHA -- Commissioner Sargodha division Zafar Iqbal here on Monday inspected under construction
family courts complex in the district court Sargodha and directed the officials concerned to speed up the work.
The Government must act urgently to ensure
family courts can provide better protection for children from abusive parents, according to a firm of solicitors.
The justices reiterated that
family courts must consider the investment income of both parties when making such awards, but declined to require them to assign a specific number to future investment income given the "uncertainty of market fluctuations."
The authors propose an approach that envisions the
family court as a "care center," blending existing theories surrounding court reform in family law, including unified
family courts, the ecology of human development, and therapeutic jurisprudence, with an ethic of care and narrative practice.
A pilot project under which
family courts have begun to operate in the evenings in Lahore, in addition to the usual morning proceedings, was launched on Friday.
According to a notification, Justice Haq approved the evening court, which shall start its working at the Lahore District Courts and hear cases under the West Pakistan
Family Courts Act, 1964 and Guardian and Wards Act, 1890 from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm with immediate effect.
She focuses on the new
family courts and khul' (no-fault judicial divorce law) and considers how three main agendas drove the establishment of the new
family courts: an agenda led by Laila Takla, an Egyptian legal expert who helped establish the new
family courts; a state agenda seeking to modernize the legal system and make it efficient; and the agenda of women's rights advocates whose goal was to address gender-based inequalities and injustice.
Citing an example, she said she has been the chairperson of the SC committee on
family courts and juvenile concerns since 2014.
25 (BNA): National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) Chairperson, Maria Khoury, has asserted that allocating a special building for
family courts will achieve the required privacy and confidentiality through distancing family disputes from the judicial buildings allocated for criminal and misdemeanor cases.
Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Mr Shaw Kgathi has told Parliament that there are already existing specialised
family courts in Gaborone and Francistown.
The Supreme Court through the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) announced on Saturday openings for justices in the Court of Appeals and Sandiganbayan and for judges in the
Family Courts.