Law Day today: Chief Justice's message

Kathmandu - Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JBR has wished that may the Law Day, 2020, today, provide the positive thinking, motivation and capacity to all to contribute from their respective places for ensuring equality, justice and the rule of law. Issuing a message of best wishes on the occasion, the Chief Justice said the COVID-19 has affected the judiciary also and that the courts in countries affected by this pandemic, including Nepal, have been managing justice administration and service delivery in a limited manner.

He urged one and all to take the inconveniences in getting justice due to this situation as something created by the adverse circumstances. "This biggest pandemic of the present millennium itself having multi-dimensional impact globally and which is also the matter of concern of the entire human race has prompted the need for a separate jurisprudence related to pandemic," the Chief Justice said. He urged the people associated with the judiciary and law sector as well as all those concerned to mark the Law Day this year by exchanging greetings and best wishes in the present situation as no formal programme could be organised due to the risk of COVID-19 pandemic.