The Nepali Judiciary - Supreme Court Of Nepal

During the discussions organized between the concerned stakeholders, some of the participants
opined for formulation of an interim Plan since they were of the view that the country was in a
transitional phase and also was in the process of drafting a new Constitution, whereas majority of
the participants opined that the functions of the judiciary would remain same irrespective of the
constitutional provisions and also expressed that if any differences arose, the same could be
addressed during the mid-term review wherein honoring the opinion of the majority, it was decided
to draft a strategic plan for a period of five years.
With the preparation of the preliminary draft, regional consultation meetings were held in
Biratnagar on 2066/3/6, Pokhara on 2066/3/13, Nepalgunj on 2066/3/17 and Kathmandu on
2066/3/20. Judges and other stakeholders participated in the consultation meeting. 4 In the
consultation meeting, the preliminary draft of the Plan was submitted and extensive discussions
were held.
Matters raised during the consultation meeting were again discussed by the Task Force and
changes to the preliminary draft were made. The final draft was submitted by the Plan Formulation
Committee before the High-Level Direction Committee and Plan Implementation Committee on
2066/3/25. Pursuant to the opinions and recommendations made by the committee, the draft was
further improved and was submitted for further suggestions in a retreat organized for the judges by
National Judicial Academy on 2066/3/27. Pursuant to the suggestions made by the honorable
justices, further changes deemed necessary were made and the draft Plan was submitted to the
Chief Justice on 2066/3/30. Thereafter, a meeting of the Full Court held on 2066/3/31 decided to
implement the Plan which was deemed to be effective from 2066/4/1.
1.4 Basic Objective of the Plan
The wider objective of the Plan is to construct a judiciary that is competent of executing its
obligations vested by the Constitution thereby gaining public trust whereas by end of the Plan
period, the principal objective of the Plan is to provide reforms in the proceedings of the judiciary
that can be widely experienced. The following objectives have been incorporated in the Plan.
• To review the first strategic plan of the Nepali judiciary and to give continuity to the process
of planned reform,
• To analyze the existing resources of the judiciary and its work and to identify its
responsibility and challenges in the changed context,
• To determine strategic interventions in order to face the responsibility and challenges
identified and to prepare an implementation plan and necessary budget thereof.
1.5 Methodology
The features of the strategic plan are based on the path determined by the first Plan and the midterm
review. As to whether or not subject matters determined by the first Plan are relevant, as to
whether or it would be appropriate to provide continuity to those subject matters and provided it is
not deemed relevant to provide continuity what need to be done were issues that were focused
during formulation of the strategic plan. Situation analysis, identification of the vision, mission,
values, core functions, result indicators and strategic interventions for the judiciary were
determined.
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Detailed description of regional consultation meetings have been provided in Annex 6
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