Case backlog, trial delay hurdles to justice: CJ

The backlog of cases and long delay in their disposal are big hurdles to the people's access to justice, Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha said today.

This "burden" can make the management of courts motionless and may increase the case disposal cost, he said.

In this situation, people's faith on the rule of law may decrease and impatience and violence expand in the society, the CJ said. So, we must get rid of the case backlog and trial delay, he added.

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For that, the judges have to give up the culture of wasting time, he added.

There are 27 lakh cases pending with the lower courts across the country at present, the chief justice said.

The CJ expects the district judges will attend their courts in time and remain engaged in the judicial function for their entire office time, he added.

However, he slammed some district judges for using other judges' vehicles for travelling outside Dhaka without the permission of the authorities concerned.

Using cars of other courts' judges is not acceptable at all, he warned the judges while addressing the second day of the national judicial conference at the Supreme Court auditorium.