Mehedi Hasan Pias, Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 07 Jan 2021 01:04 PM BdST
Updated: 07 Jan 2021 01:04 PM BdST
A lawyer has provided an account of Tk 1.5 million in expenses for filing a single appeal against a High Court verdict on behalf of the nine death-row convicts in a case over the massacre inside the border guards headquarters in the capital’s Peelkhana in 2009. );
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In an attempt to reduce the expenses, Advocate-on-Record Md Taufique Hossain filed a petition to Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain seeking an exemption from submitting the paper books for the appeal.
According to the Constitution and the Supreme Court s procedural law, an advocate-on-record is a lawyer authorised to appeal to the court on behalf of any party.