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" BRING LAW AND JUSTICE CLOSER BRING LAW AND JUSTICE CLOSER   TO   UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLES   CHIEF JUSTICE CORNELIUS'S PLEA   FOR   CREATION OF A "JUST SOCIETY" OF ISLAMIC PATTERN       Speech by Mr. Justice A. R. Cornelius, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan at the Inauguration Ceremony of the Students Union of Jinnah Law College, Hyderabad on the 25th February, 1967.   I am very pleased to be among you all on the occasion of the inaugura tion of the College Union. Your studies are of a specialist character and I think I may assume that your Union will have purposes which are more specialised than those of the ordinary Arts College Union. There will, of course, be some general purposes as well, but in the main the objective could be to operate so as to further the acquisition of legal knowledge and the preparation of the students for their eventual entry either into the legal profession or other affairs where their knowledge of law will be both a necessity and an asset. I therefore propose to speak today of two particular aspects of your preparation and training for entry into the field of law.   Recently in Lahore I had the pleasure and privilege of joining in a great demonstration of the unity of the legal profession under the aegis of a great High Court. The Lahore High Court, which in 1955 was merged in the greater High Court of West Pakistan, was founded in the year 1866 as a Chief Court, and the hundredth year following that event fell in 1966. It was celebrated this year after a delay of about 12 months, on account of the true date falling so soon after the disturbances created by the War of September, 1965. The Judges of the West Pakistan High Court led by their Chief Justice took upon…