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University of Management and Technology

Course Outline
1. Course code LW 501 Course title: Judicial Policy-
Core course

Program

MS in Public Policy

Credit Hours

3

Duration

One Semester

Prerequisites

Minimum CGPA of 2.50 in 4-years Bachelors Degree or
equivalent or 16-Years Masters Degree.
Pre admission Interview.


Resource Person

Mohammed Asif

Counseling Time

Days would be decided in consultation with the class ( by
appointment), email anytime




Contact
Afzalmian3@gmail.com

Mobile phone number: 0321-886-1953

Chairman/Director signature.
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Deans signature Date 26. Sept, 2013


Learning Objective:
Judicial policy involves the study of third important branch of a democratic
government. The learning objective of this academic discipline is quite vast as it
deals with numerous complex components of the entire administration of justice.
Thus, this course is designed to educate the participants about the importance of
effective, efficient, independent and impartial judiciary as an organization and its
various courts at different levels. The students would understand that it is
imperative to modernize court administration to ensure timely delivery of justice;
the control of a judge over the life of the case from the stage of filing to
disposition; it maintains rule of law; it protects the fundamental rights; and
safeguard peace and security for social, economic and political development in an
independents sovereign country. The participants would learn about the
functioning of judiciary under different federating units of the states and under
various systems of government.
In view of the above, this course of judicial policy aims at the following;
a) To develop critical thinking for understanding the main principles of
judicial system and its evolutionary development;
b) To analyze the National Judicial Policy of the apex court regarding the
district and lower courts of Pakistan;
c) To develop understanding of the organizational structure of judiciary in
Pakistan;
d) To analyze the principles and techniques of court case flow management
system; (operation of courts)
e) To understand the success of Pakistans First National Reform Project for
court delay reduction and backlog of cases; and
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f) To develop and make recommendations to change the existing sluggish
judicial system of Pakistan;

Learning Methodology:
This course is designed to include lectures and active participation of students in
the class that enables them to develop creative thinking which is an effective
method of learning. In addition,
this method is useful for organizing and developing the thoughts coherently and
critically for understanding this course. The participants would be encouraged to
raise questions and discuss them in the class; and with this, active participants can
get up to 10% marks as an award in their grading system.
The participants will focus on the assigned readings and lectures. The resource
person will also give short essays, a week in advance, for reading so that the
students can acquire some basic knowledge relating to the lecture, most
importantly for participation in the class discussion.
In addition to random, objective quiz tests, mid-term and final term subjective
exams, the students are required to write ten pages research essay paper on the
topic of their choice relating to this particular course. The resource person will
explain the requirements, in terms of principles and techniques, for writing this
research essay paper. .
The participants would have the assigned reading and also would focus on lectures
which may include information outside the assigned readings. Rules of exams and
writing research papers are determined by UMT policy, this resource person will
explain that to the participants in the class.

Grade Evaluation Criteria
Following is the criteria for the distribution of marks to evaluate final grade in
a semester.
Class Participation 10 Marks
Research Essay-10 pages 10 Marks
Mid-term exam 30 Marks
Quiz Test (Objective) 10 Marks
Final Term Exam 40 Marks
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Total 100 Marks

Recommended Readings:

The resource person will provide reading material in the class on most of the topics
of judicial policy.
READINGS

Berkson Larry, Unified Court System, the Justice System, Denver, Colorado, 1978

Baar Carl, Criminal Court Delay and the Charter, The Canadian Bar Review,
Toronto, 1993

Baum Lawrance, Lower Court Response to Supreme Court Decisions:
Reconsidering a Negative Response, The Justice System, Denver, Colorado, 1978

Malik Nafeer Ahmad, The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Irfan
Law Book House, Lahore, 2012

Miller and Baar, Judicial Administration in Canada, Oxford University Press,
Toronto, 1980

Eisen Berg and Handerson James R, What the Applete Courts Do? Justice System,
State University of New York, 1993Maclaury Bruce K, Justice for all, The
Brooking Institution, 1989

Solomon Peter H, Criminal Justice Policy from Research to Reforms,
Buttrerworths, Toronto, 1982

Zuckerman A.A.S. and Cranston Rose, Reform of Civil Procedure, Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1995

Canadian Charter of Rights, Ministry of Attorney General, Constitutional
requirement for disposal of Cases within Reasonable time, 1982s

This resource person will supply the reading material on some of the topics
regarding the course of Judicial Policy.
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COURSE OUTLINES
Week1. Meaning and importance of judiciary in a democratic system of
government and its brief account of evolutionary development since 1500 BC;

Week2. Separation of powers between the judicial, executive and legislative
branches of the government under 1972 and 1962 constitutions of Pakistan;

Week3. National and international justice systems with reference to Pakistan and
International Court of Justice and International criminal court of Justiced;

Week4. The judicial system of Pakistan, organization of courts and their
jurisdictions;

Week5. Adjudicative independence and administrative independence, the relation
between these two interdependent variables;

Week6. Independent and Impartial Judicial system, to be discussed in the class
through active participation;

Week7. Judicial reforms movement in various countries and the role of
international donor institutions for funding the modernization of court management
system;

Week8. Analysis of the sluggish judicial system of Pakistan and wrestling of
judges with court case delay and backlog of cases, a discussion would be held in
the class about causes of this decadent justice system;

Week9. Mid-term exam and quiz test

Week10. Court reforms in Pakistan under access to justice system project, analysis
of this first national court delay reduction project;

Last week of submitting the research essay, Zero acceptance will apply for
late essay.

Week11. The principles and techniques of developing efficient and effective case
flow management for delivering timely justice or disposal of court cases without
unwanted delay;

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Week12. The major weaknesses in legal studies in the law colleges in Pakistan and
the bar councils and discussion includes recommendations for improvement;

Week13. 2009 Judicial policy of the apex court of Pakistan and its analysis in class
discussion;

Week14. The analytical review of the present judicial system in terms of its effects
on Pakistan and this would be followed by class discussion with the application of
system approach;

Week15. Final exam