EVALUATING EFFECT OF PENDENCY OF CASES ON DISPENSATION OF JUSTICE IN DISTRICT JUDICIARY OF PAKISTAN

Under the governance system of modern democracy, the duty of dispensation of justice is entrusted to institution of judiciary. In our judicial system, district courts are the first formal forum of justice where 80% people bring their cases for adjudication, but unfortunately it has been unable to cater the needs to provide justice in time due to many issues one of them is pendency. This paper also takes into account different factor causing Pendency like non-cooperation of other stakeholders in the system of administration of justice i.e., lawyers, police and jail administration etc. Furthermore, different ways and means have also been suggested to minimize the pendency so that expeditious dispensation of justice can be ensured to public at large. 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 insignificant relationship of pendency of case with dispensation of justice as both the variables were not mutually co related