Ultimate purpose of justice in the society is to ensure peace: CJP

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has stressed that dispensation of effective and expeditious justice was a Constitutional requirement of Pakistan.
Addressing the seminar organized by Chief Justice, Sindh High Court (SHC) attended by all the relevant stakeholders, the CJP stressed that tit was a well settled legal principle that justice is not only to be done but it should be seen to be done.
“ The ultimate purpose of justice in the society is to ensure peace, amity and tolerance, which contribute for the welfare of people. Our Constitution and laws derive inspiration from the holy Quran and traditions of the Prophet. Man is a supreme creation ” he declared.
Stressing that great responsibility was entrusted on the shoulders of those who have to participate in the process of administration of justice, he cautioned that any error or flaw could make the judge accountable in this world and the world hereafter.
Drawing participants’ attention to Article 4 of the Constitution requiring the State to ensure inexpensive and expeditious justice, he quoted Daniel Webster’s saying that “Justice is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together”, and advised that all actors involved in the administration of justice, including the Bench, the bar, the investigating agencies and prosecution, were duty bound to administer justice and uphold the supremacy of rule of law.
He stressed that it was the inalienable right of every citizen to enjoy the protection of law and to be treated in accordance with law as envisaged under.
He defined the main objectives of the criminal justice system as prevention of occurrence of crime, punishing the transgressors and the criminals, rehabilitate them, compensate the victims as far as possible, maintain law and order in the society and deter the offenders from committing any criminal act in the future.
He deliberated that in every society the responsibility of keeping the people safe from the unfair acts of others is entrusted to the State, while the rationale of the criminal justice system was the realization of rule of law, which is one of the basic conditions for sustainable development of societies; as “ Where there is rule of law resultantly, the people hold confidence in the ability of the State institutions to provide justice and security”, he reasoned.