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" CHANGES IN THE CHANGES IN THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE TO ELIMINATE DELAYS IN CRIMINAL CASES   BY   NAZIRUDDIN AHMAD   Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan   The Ministry of Law has sent a memorandum to the Pakistan Bar Council containing certain suggestions for some far‑reaching changes in the structure of the Code of Criminal Procedure affecting criminal trials, for their opinion. They are said to be the result of the actual experience of judicial officers. These are also the recommendations of the Law Reforms Commission published in 1959.   Broadly speaking, the suggestions are three in number, namely; (i) abo lition of the procedure of warrant cases, (ii) the abolition of the commitment proceedings in cases triable by the Court of Session, and (iii) the abolition of the system of associating assessors with sessions trials.   As these suggestions have been made for the avowed purpose of elimi nating delays in criminal trials, they deserve the serious consideration of all interested in the speedy and effective dispensation of justice in criminal cases.   Undue and inordinate delays undeniably occur in the disposal of criminal cases at various stages, but the causes of these delays and their nature and effect have not been gone into either by the Commission or in the memorandum. It has been taken for granted that the elimination of these procedures will as a matter of course eliminate the delays.   Speaking from long experience in the various types of criminal Courts, I suggest, with respect, that the real or the major causes of the delays, which undoubtedly occur, have not been examined and the suggested changes in the Code will not appreciably reduce these delays‑not to speak of elimi nating them…