MANAGEMENT & CONTROL 

For general supervision of the affairs of the Academy and the achievement of its aims and objects, a Board of Governors has been constituted under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Pakistan. The management of the Academy is carried on under the general directions of the Board, by the Director General who is the Principal Accounting Officer as well as academic and administrative head of the Academy.

 TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The Academy employs all the standard techniques for imparting training, which include class room lectures by judges, jurists and scholars, supplemented by panel discussions, scenarios, simulations, problem solving  and case studies with reference to landmark judgments of the superior courts, involving issues both pertaining to substantive and procedural law.

Syndicate discussions also form part of the training methodology. It aims at providing an opportunity to the participants to interact and exchange their knowledge and experience with one another; which helps in analyzing and articulation of current juridical issues. Participants are divided into a number of groups. One of the participants is designated as Chairman who, prepares with the contribution of other members of the group,  a report which is presented in the plenary session, for conclusions and finalization of recommendations.

 PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAMS

Ever since its inception, training programmes, refresher and re-orientation courses, seminars and workshops have been conducted, during which training has been imparted to civil judges-cum-judicial magistrates, senior civil judges, additional district & sessions judges, district & sessions judges and court personnel, hailing from all the four provinces, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.

Lectures and discourses by eminent  scholars  and  jurists  were  arranged  on large number of subjects, to equip the trainee judges with judicial skills, required to improve the quality of justice, with greater stress on subjects such as the rule of law, alternative dispute resolution, framing charge in criminal cases, issues in civil matters, the conduct of a judge, court management, etiquettes and manners, self-management and stress management. Various other topics were also covered, with particular emphasis on civil practise and procedure, maintenance of court registers and record, case management, style of judicial reasoning and the process of decision making.