Bio-Data of MUHAMMAD AMIR MUNIR MBA, LLB, CCIL, LLM, PhD (Candidate) Civil Judge 1st Class / Judicial Magistrate S.30 Senior Instructor, Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore www.pja.gov.pk Permanent Home Address: 125/B, Judicial Colony, Lalazar, Raiwind Road, Lahore - Pakistan Cell Ph: +92-333-424 5294 Email: [email protected] SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=670902 Name: Muhammad Amir Munir Father‟s Name: Justice ® Dr. Munir Ahmad Mughal Date of Birth: 28.12.1972 CNIC#: 35202-2068686-3 NTN#: 2372959 Marital Status: Married (3 daughters) Work Experience: Law Practice: 3 years Judicial Service: 13 years Judicial Education: 8 years Research/Publication: 17 years Education & Qualification: Matric (Science) 1988 Government Central Model High School, Lower Mall, Lahore F.Sc. (Pre-Medical) 1990 Government Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore. BCom 1992 Hailey College of Commerce, Punjab University, Lahore MBA (Marketing) 1995 College of Business Administration (CBA), Lahore LLB 1996 Punjab University Law College, Lahore Shari'ah Academy, International Islamic University, CCIL 1997 Islamabad (Correspondence Course). PCS (Judicial) 2000 Punjab Public Service Commission, Lahore. Punjab University Law College, Lahore. LLM 2006 PhD Law Candidate International Islamic University, Islamabad Bar Enrollment: Enrolled as an Advocate by the Punjab Bar Council on 18 August 1998 and joined Syed Kalim Khurshid Law Associates, Galaxy Chambers, 1 Turner Road, Lahore. (Practiced law till joined as Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate). Selected as Research Associate on WTO by Khan & Associates, Attorneys-at- Law (worked with Mansoor Hassan Khan, Advocate) August-September 2000. Enrolled as an Advocate High Court on 19 September 2000. 2 Competitive Examination: Passed Provincial Civil Services (Judicial) Exam, PCS (Judicial) 2000 for the post of Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate. Remained at 15th position. Working as such since 27 November 2000. Pre-Service Training: Attended 15th Civil Judges-cum-Judicial Magistrates’ Pre-Service Training Course at the Federal Judicial Academy, Islamabad (Dec. 2000 – January 2001). In-Service Training: Attended a Three-Week Intensive Study Program for Judicial Educators, at the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute (CJEI), Halifax, Ottawa and Toronto (June 2008). Attended a Two-Week In-Service Training Course on Performance Evaluation of Civil Judges (for promotion) at the Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore (Dec. 2013). Work Experience: At Lahore: Advocate, Subordinate Courts (3 years) Sept 1997 to Nov 2000; Advocate, High Court since 19 September 2000. At Multan: Civil Judge-cum-Judicial Magistrate, Multan 27 Nov 2000 to 19 July 2003; Also worked as Judge Family Court; Rent Controller and Juvenile Court. Assistant Returning Officer for Local Bodies Elections 2001 (Union Council Nos.1 to 8, Multan); Assistant Returning Officer for General Elections, 2002 (NA-149 and PP-194 Multan); Revising Authority to revise electoral rolls (Census Charges No.11-15, Multan) for Local Bodies Elections 2001 and General Elections 2002; Worked exclusively as Judicial Magistrate Ist Class (15 October 2002 to 18 November 2002) after bifurcation of civil and criminal work in Multan District. At Gujrat: Judge Family Court, Gujrat 28 July 2003 to 31May 2004; Civil Judge Class II-cum-Judicial Magistrate 1st September 2004 to 18 July 2005. Returning Officer for Local Bodies Elections 2005 (Union Council Nos. 22, 23, 27 to 31, Gujrat) Civil Judge 1st Class / Magistrate s.30 18 July 2005 to 24 November 2006. At Islamabad: Additional-Director, Federal Judicial Academy, Govt. of Pakistan, Islamabad (on deputation) 28 November 2006 to 6 June 2009. Civil Judge 1st Class/ Judicial Magistrate s.30, Islamabad. 6 June 2009 to 22 October 2010. At Jhelum: Civil Judge 1st Class/ Judicial Magistrate s.30, Jhelum. (also serving as Rent Controller, Family Judge, Juvenile Court) 25 October 2010 to 19 January 2012. 3 At Lahore: Research Officer, Research Center, Lahore High Court, Lahore. 23 January 2012 – to 15 April 2014. Senior Instructor, Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore. Since 15 April, 2014. Membership and Association: Member, WTO Forum, Lahore (1999-2000). A Lahore based association of lawyers that has interest in WTO related legal services. Research Associate, Research Society of International Law, Lahore. (1999- onward) Associate Member, Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association, London (2002-03). Member, Punjab Judicial Officer’s Association, Lahore (2000 – onward) Workshops, Lectures, Seminars and Conferences Attended: INMIC98 Conference, held at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, 1998. (Participated as Speaker and contributed a pioneer paper on Law and IT in Pakistan). Pakistan Bar Council‟s Seminar, held at Lahore High Court, Lahore, 1999, presided over by the then Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Saeed-uz- Zaman Siddiqui. (Participated as Speaker and contributed a paper on law and IT). World Bank‟s Capacity Building Workshop on WTO, held at Islamabad, 7-9 February, 2002. National Consultative Workshop on Draft Electronic Crimes Bill, 2005, held at Best Western Hotel, Islamabad on 19 January 2005 under the auspices of Ministry of Information Technology and Pakistan Software Export Board, Govt. of Pakistan. A Talk on WTO, delivered by Dr. Kipkorir Aly Azad Rana, (Deputy Director- General, WTO, Geneva,) at Dr. Pervez Hasan Environmental Law Center, Punjab University, Lahore, on 11th February 2005. Judicial Conference, 2007, held under the auspices of Supreme Court of Pakistan, Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan and National Judicial Policy Making Committee, Islamabad (February 2007). South Asian Conference on Environmental Justice, held at PC Bhurban, Murree under the auspices of IUCN and Supreme Court of Pakistan (23-25 March 2012). Attended as Associate of Research Center, Lahore High Court. International Judicial Conference, 2012, held at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Marriot Hotel, Islamabad under the auspices of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (13-15 April 2012). Participated and presented a paper on the idea to establish “South Asian Judicial Education Institute”. International Law Conference, 2012, held at Avari Hotel, Lahore under the auspices of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association. Seminars for Volunteer Lawyers for Women in Darul-Amans. 2012. Held under the auspices of the Punjab Government Department of Social Welfare; Punjab Bar Council and MDM France. Acted as Resource Person under permission of Hon’ble Lahore High Court. Presentations were made in Lahore (40 volunteer lawyers) and Rawalpindi (40 volunteer lawyers) on the topic: Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Legal Ethics and Confidentiality. International Judicial Conference 2013, held at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad under the auspices of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan and the National Judicial Policy Making Committee (19-21 April 2013). Participated and presented a paper on the topic: “Issues and 4 Challenges in the Training Needs Assessment (TNA): Judicial Education in a Rule of Law Perspective”. International Conference on Engaging the Learner: Rethinking Education, 2014 held under the auspices of the Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi and the Higher Education Commission Islamabad (10-12 February, 2014). Participated and presented a paper on the topic: “Judicial Education and Training at Digital Platform: Digital Simulation, Video Games and Virtual Reality”. International Judicial Conference, 2014, held at the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad under the auspices of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (18-19 April 2014). Participated. Honors and Prizes: Won the 2nd Prize in English Essay Writing Competition in Central Model High School (1986). Won the 1st Prize in English Essay Writing Competition in Punjab University Law College (1995). Won the Best Singles Award in Table Tennis Competition at business school (1995). Acted as Member, Editorial Board, business school Magazine (1994-95). Presided Law Moot Courts at Punjab University Law College, Punjab University (1996-99). Appointed as Resource Person, Law Moot Society, at Punjab University Law College (1998-99). Citations of Legal Articles and Research papers published in PLD and PLJ have been listed on official website of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (www.ljcp.gov.pk). Pioneer writer and speaker on the topic of COMPUTER LAW AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY in Pakistan. My article “TJ Elements in Juvenile Justice System of Pakistan: Problems for a Juvenile Court to Act Therapeutically” has been accepted and published as Guest Column by the University of Arizona Law School and can be accessed online at http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/upr-intj/intj-article.html. References to my articles written on the topic of Therapeutic Jurisprudence (TJ) have been included in TJ Bibliography by the International Network on Therapeutic Jurisprudence (www.therapeuticjurisprudence.org). These references can be accessed online at http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/upr- intj/intj-articulos.html. Invited to read a Paper in a Conference on Islamic Criminal Justice System by the Shari`ah Academy, International Islamic University, Islamabad (4-5 July 2005). www.iiu.edu.pk Invited to attend and read a paper in Third International Conference on Therapeutic Jurisprudence to be held in Perth, Western Australia (7-9 June 2006). http://www.aija.org.au/TJ/call.htm A number of articles and research papers have been published,