Lawyers canteen

Acting CJ lays foundation stone of lawyers' canteen

Acting Chief Justice of State High Court Justice Virender Singh at the side of Justice J P Singh and Justice Yaqoob Mir nowadays laid the inspiration stone of Lawyers' Canteen advanced. With this, the long pending demand of the Bar Association Jammu has been met with.Speaking on the occasion, Bar President, B S Slathia expressed gratitude to Justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla, who throughout his tenure as Chief Justice of J&K, showed utmost interest in providing canteen advanced to the Bar members.He conjointly expressed gratitude to Acting Chief Justice, Justice Virender Singh, Justice Mansoor A Mir and Justice J P Singh for his or her approval, expeditious identification of the placement for lawyers canteen and finalization of the positioning set up within the shortest potential time.An quantity of Rs nine lakh has already been sanctioned by the Union Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, for the canteen advanced. Mr Slathia urged the JKPCC to finish the development of the canteen by October this year.Vikram Sharma, general secretary of the Bar, Parimoksh Seth, joint secretary, Sandeepa Sambyal, treasurer, designated Senior Advocates and therefore the members of Bar were gift on the occasion.

Lawyers suspend strike in jammu

Lawyers suspend strike in jammu

After suspending their over three weeks long of strike, lawyers here today resumed their work following High Court order to put on hold state government's decision of transferring powers of registration of documents from judiciary to executive.

Full Bench of the State High Court comprising Justice Virender Singh, Justice JP Singh and Justice Hasnain Massodi yesterday stayed the government order of transferring powers of land registration from judiciary to revenue department, and directed the striking lawyers who were opposing the move to resume normal work.

The decision to call off the strike was taken by the Bar Association of Jammu (BAJ) in general body meeting in view of the stay given by the High Court, which also asked us to commence work, president of the association Advocate BS Salathia said.

“We have suspended the strike and resumed normal work in the courts from today. This decision was taken at general house meeting here this morning,” Salathia told reporters here while addressing a press conference this afternoon.

BAJ president further said that talks with government will take place on one side and case is now also under review of the High Court.

Earlier while addressing general house meeting BS Salathia congratulated the legal fraternity in taking lead in the protest against the transfer of registration powers. He praised the role of young lawyers who worked overnight to make sure that the public is informed of the design of the government in facilitating the regularisation of illegal encroachments by land mafia and those sitting in the power corridors.

He complimented the High Court for recognising the public interest involved in the issue and its intervention by framing Public Interest Litigation for its judicial adjudication.

Advocate Slathia also extended thanks to all the trade, transport, social and political organisations which came out in support of the protest initiated by BAJ. He further stated that the role of media has also been positive in projecting the cause taken up by BAJ in its right perspective.

Slathia appealed to Bar Associations on protest across the state to suspend the protest agitation and resume work forthwith since the issuance of SRO has been put on hold by the Special Bench of the High Court.

In the meeting vice president BAJ Advocate Usman Salaria and General Secretary Advocate Vikram Sharma also addressed the house.

lawyers strike Continued

Jammu and Kashmir government does not appear to be serious in bringing to an end the continued strike of Jammu Bar Association which has been protesting against transfer of registration work from judiciary to revenue department. The strike has been continuing for the past more than a week now with no end in sight. The issue of enhancement of quota for practicing lawyers for recruitment in judicial services has been resolved through negotiations with the bar association with the initiative from the Chief Justice of J&K high court last week. The strike has adversely affected with working in the court and litigants have to suffer for no fault of theirs. This is also leading to piling up of cases adding to higher pendency of cases in the courts. Already the work has suffered a lot due to strike and the litigants had to go back disappointed from the court and hearings and decisions of the courts in various cases have been postponed. The pendency of cases is already staggering high and the estimates of the presiding officer suggest that this can be reduced with quick adjudication of cases in the next five years or so. The government should step in and resolve the issue through negotiations so that normal working in the judiciary is restored at the earliest. This is particularly required in view of the fact that it is ultimately the common man, who is at the receiving end due to prolonged strike. The litigants have been travelling from their homes in other towns to the courts and high courts with the hope of getting justice and early disposal of their cases. Resolution of the strike is the only way to reduce pendency of cases in courts.

Jammu lawyers extend strike till Dec 7

Bar Association Jammu (BAJ) today extended its ongoing strike till December 7, 2011.A general house meeting of BAJ was held under the chairmanship of its President Advocate BS Slathia to discuss the ongoing strike by lawyers in protest against the move of the government in taking away the powers of the registration of documents from Judicial Officers to Ex

ecutive Officers (Revenue). BAJ decided to continue their on going strike till December 7, 2011.

A delegation of the BAJ had met the Chief Justice, J&K High Court, day before yesterday and put forth their grievances against the diversion of quota of lawyers in direct recruitment to the posts of District & Sessions Judges, fixing of higher cut-off of 60 percent marks and the time-duration for written-examinations. Chief Justice had proposed the Bar members to suspend their strike to facilitate the consideration of the lawyers’ grievances. The proposition from the Chief Justice was discussed in the general house meeting today.

The general house appreciated the intervention of the Chief Justice as Head of the Institution.  As per the assurance of the Chief Justice, the members of  Bar Association unanimously decided to suspend the strike so far as their grievances with respect to the Recruitment Rules for J&K Higher Judicial Services (Direct Recruitment of Sessions Judges) is concerned and complimented the  Chief Justice for postponing the examinations for selection to J&K Higher Judicial services.

However, the Bar has decided to continue its strike on the other pending issues and a delegation of senior members and representatives of Young Lawyers led by BS Slathia, President BAJ also met the Minister for Rural Development, Law & Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar, Minister for Revenue, Relief & Rehabilitation Raman Bhalla, Minister for Education Peerzada Mohammad Syed and Minister for PHE, Flood Control Taj  Mohi-ud-Din in this regard.

The Bar delegation apprised the ministers about the difficulties the general public will be put to in case the registration powers are shifted from the Judicial Officers besides opening the flood gates for corruption and facilitating the already active land mafia.

The Bar Association Jammu urged the Chief Minister to immediately intervene and sort out the issue, keeping in view the aspirations of legal fraternity across the state and interests of general public at large.The general house of BAJ decided to continue with the protest and abstain from work in all courts till December 7, 2011. The general house of BAJ has decided to meet again on December 7 to decide the future course of action.