Talk:Therapeutic jurisprudence
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Pakistan In the changing global trends about services provided by the judiciaries to litigants, Therapeutic Jurisprudence has added more diversity to provide better solutions for legal problems. In Pakistan, TJ is also practiced but not identified as such. It is so because judges and lawyers in Pakistan are generally unaware about this very new field of jurisprudence. However, now there are few writings on TJ in Pakistan which have been published in Pakistan Law Journal (PLJ) http://www.pakistanlawjournal.com and Legal Edition. A Pakistani scholar Muhammad Ahmad Munir http://www.iiu.edu.pk/iri/AhmadMunir.htm (ahmad_mughal@hotmail.com) has already presented a paper on the topic "Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Juvenile Delinquency and the Role of Defence Lawyer" in 3rd International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence held at Perth, W. Australia in June 2006. Efforts are also underway to establish TJ Societies in one or two law schools. A project to develop linkage program between Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad http://www.iiu.edu.pk/iri/iri.htm and University of Arizona www.law.arizona.edu has principally been approved by both the institutions wherein Muhammad Ahmad Munir of IRI will spend two months at Univ of Arizona to study TJ under guidance of Prof David B Wexler and will seek opportunities to establish TJ related linkage program between the two universities. Further, Pakistani laws that have TJ potential are Juvenile Justice System Ordinance, 2000; Family Courts Act, 1964 and Control of Narcotics Substance Act, 1997 read with Probation of Offenders Ordinance, 1960. Studies are underway, through TJ lens, to find out healing capacities of these laws. More indigenous literature will bring new ideas for Pakistani judges and lawyers to follow TJ track of administration of above mentioned laws for better solutions to legal problems of litigants. A small essay on TJ and Juvenile law of Pakistan as administered by Muhammad Amir Munir, a Pakistani Juvenile Court Judge, can be accessed online at Guest Column available at website http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/upr-intj/. The title of essay is "TJ Elements in Juvenile Justice System of Pakistan: Problems for a Juvenile Court to act Therapeutically". There is another article by Muhammad Amir Munir with title and citation: "Domestic Violence and the Pakistan Family Court’s Act, 1964 in Perspectives of Therapeutic Jurisprudence” in PLJ 2006 Magazine 228. Hopefully, Pakistan will be the pioneer developing country having TJ concepts incorporated in theory and practice.
