The Nepali Judiciary - Supreme Court Of Nepal

Pursuant to the policy of providing services to court users through counter system, provisions of
counters have been made in the newly constructed courts and to the extent possible provision of
counters have also been made in old buildings so as to provide services to court users. Initiatives
towards modernizing court libraries have been undertaken with the purchase of cupboards and
additional books. Provisions of furniture and racks have assisted in management of records,
wherein record files can be immediately obtained.
Construction Committee had prepared and submitted a three years work plan wherein the
Committee was requested to integrate and prioritize the plan according to the mid-term review
report wherein efforts to integrate and prioritize the plan is being carried out. Matters regarding
security of courts, judges and employees had been included under the physical infrastructure
development plan and in order to develop the security of the above matter a committee had been
constituted wherein the security development plan is in its final stage. 54
3.3.4 To pursue for the streamlining of the number and geographical distribution of courts
and review the existing jurisdiction
The Plan had proposed review of the current location of the courts and simplification of its
jurisdiction. In order to conduct a study and submit recommendation thereof, a Court Jurisdiction
Review Committee 55 and Court Functioning Jurisdiction Committee 56 had been formed. The
committees have submitted their reports.
Where recommendations made by the Committee was in the process of being implemented,
Interim Constitution, 2063 was promulgated wherein the Interim Constitution provided for
restructuring of the state and prescribed for a federal structure, and since the above matters were
to be decided through the promulgation of a new Constitution this strategic intervention was
dropped by the mid-term review.
3.3.5 To strengthen the capacity of the judiciary to execute decisions
The Plan had envisaged to conduct a national conference of the execution officers/officials and
identify the problems, to develop a policy on review of law and strengthening of logistical support
and on recruitment of suitable human resource for efficient execution and revamping of security
and to identify the training needs of executing officers/officials.
In this regard, two national conferences of the execution officers/officials had been conducted. 57 In
addition to this, a committee had been formed 58 to study the provisions regarding sentencing and
fines and recovery of such sentence and fines.
A committee had been formed by the Central Level Justice Sector Coordination Committee to draft
decision execution guideline. The Committee had recommended for amendment of laws,
constitution of an autonomous Body for execution of decision and provision of mechanisms for
monitoring and evaluation of execution of decisions from the Supreme Court to the District Court.
54 Hon’ble Justice Balram K.C. was the coordinator of this committee
55 Hon’ble Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel was the coordinator of this committee and the committee had submitted its
report on 2062/2/31
56 Hon’ble Justice Khil Raj Regmi was the coordinator of the committee and the committee had submitted its report on
2062/12/7
57 The first conference was held on 2062/3/3-5 and the second on 2062/5/24-26
58 Former District Court Justice Shambhu Bahadur Karki was the chairperson of this committee and the committee had
submitted its report on 2062
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