The Lahore Excessive Court docket (LHC) has strongly condemned the rising development of unfounded allegations of bias and partiality towards judges, emphasising the necessity to curb such practices to protect the dignity and honour of the judiciary.
"It has regrettably turn out to be a prevalent development to levy baseless allegations towards judges, undermining the picture, dignity, and honour of the judiciary within the eyes of the general public. Such practices should be firmly suppressed," Justice Ali Zia Bajwa acknowledged throughout a listening to.
Justice Bajwa was addressing a petition searching for the switch of a non-public grievance trial to a different court docket, primarily based on claims that the trial choose was allegedly biased towards the applicant.
Dismissing the petition, Justice Bajwa noticed that such accusations, if unfounded, may hurt public confidence within the judicial system and injury the fame of judicial officers with out trigger. Justice Bajwa underscored that the switch of a case on allegations of bias should meet stringent standards, grounded in details moderately than conjecture.
He acknowledged, "The assure of a good trial, as enshrined in Article 10-A of The Structure of Pakistan, is prime to the justice system. Allegations of bias should be backed by clear proof and robust, cogent causes."
The court docket clarified that the mere apprehension of bias or prejudice, until substantiated, is inadequate grounds for transferring a case.
Justice Bajwa emphasised {that a} choose's impartiality should be challenged primarily based on demonstrable details, not opinions, and any allegations should present an actual chance of bias that considerably impacts the choose's capability to ship justice.
The applicant failed to supply any credible proof to help claims of prejudice towards the trial choose.
"The allegations seem like a lot ado about nothing, missing any credible basis. With out clear proof, such claims merely solid unwarranted aspersions on the impartiality of the trial choose."