EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF STRENGTH OF JUDGES ON DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE IN DISTRICT JUDICIARY OF PAKISTAN

It is duty of courts to dispense justice to public at large in accordance with Law and Constitution. The court is regarded as temple of justice and judge is the highest chief priest to ensure justice (Adelola 1997, p 139). The judiciary is the citadel of hope for common man. As Aristotle says to go to judge is to go to justice but often it is unspeakable that judiciary is sometimes meaningless in ensuring justice (Ayodele 2004, p 62). There are different reasons that hinder the process of dispensation of justice and cause failure of the system, one of them is inadequate number of judges and nonavailability of courts. Under the Judicial hierarchy District judiciary is the initial forum of Justice System. People almost start their litigation from this stage. Everyone talks about delays and slow rate of dispensation that crumbles the trust of people in this third pillar institution of the state. This paper studies the dearth of judges or inadequate number of judges at the level of district judiciary that becomes the one of the major causes of slow dispensation of justice. It discusses the relationship of dispensation of justice with strength or number of judges in district judiciary of Pakistan. The Research was done by developing a hypothesis and after operationalization of hypothesis it was tested with statistical tools and techniques to get results. Population of study was infinite therefore the required sample of 245 people from five categories 95 litigants, 75 lawyers, 25 Judges, 25 Court administrative staff and 25 Law enforcement agencies was selected through non-probability convenience sampling technique. Five-point Likert scale was used to measure research variables. The study explored the significant relationship of strength of judges with dispensation of justice as both the variables were mutually co related.