Judiciary makes outstanding success during peak of Covid-19: Anisul
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DHAKA, Dec 18, 2020 (BSS) – Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today said the country’s judiciary under the leadership of the chief justice has made an outstanding success during the peak of coronavirus (Covid-19).
“During the Covid-19 peak, the justices kept running the judicial proceedings by conducting virtual court which has been lauded at the international arena,” he told a discussion marking Bangladesh Supreme Court Day at the apex court’s auditorium here.
President Md Abdul Hamid was the chief guest of the discussion.
The law minister said the conducting of virtual court revealed the efficiency and capability of the entire judiciary.
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Published: 18 Dec 2020 10:10 PM BdST
Updated: 18 Dec 2020 10:10 PM BdST
President Md Abdul Hamid has urged the judges to work harder so that the people seeking justice need not wait long for copies of rulings. );
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“As a lawyer, I know how hard and complex the work in the judiciary is, how hard the judges have to work. But the judges will need to work harder in order to deal with the rising number of cases,” the president said.
“The government firmly believes in the freedom of judiciary and is committed to ensuring professional facilities for the judges. But the judges must be careful so that the people seeking justice do not need to walk the corridors of the court day after day for copies of verdicts,” he added.
Ensure justice seekers get verdict copies without delay
President urges judges
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President Abdul Hamid yesterday called upon judges to ensure that justice-seekers do not have to keep coming back to the court for days even after the verdict in a case is delivered .
The president is thought to have been referring to the situation where inordinate delays ensue between the delivery of a summarised or short verdict in a case and the full judgement release.
Most of the time, petitioners are unable to avail any relief awarded by the court before the release of the judgement, at which point the case can be said to have been disposed of.
Now, the newly-appointed attorney general, AM Amin Uddin, said he will take initiative for hearing the appeals. I will inquire about the war-crime appeals pending with the Appellate Division. If they are ready for hearing, I will take an initiative in January for their hearing, he told this newspaper.
The last war-crime related appeal hearing took place at the Appellate Division of Supreme Court on December 3, 2019. Convicted war criminal Syed Mohammad Qaisar filed the appeal, challenging the death penalty handed to him by a war-crimes tribunal in 2014.
The Appellate Division has so far disposed of only nine such appeals, including the one Qaisar filed, in the last seven years.