A FUNCTIONAL independence of the judiciary should mean a judiciary independent of the legislative and the executive branch in all aspects. But this has not happened all these years. The independence of the judiciary was officially effected on November 1, 2007 from the executive and the legislative based on a 12-point directive that the Appellate Division issued on...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday continued hearing arguments for the second day on appeals and review petitions challenging the court鈥檚 2011 verdict that had scrapped the caretaker government system...
The Appellate Division on Thursday allowed the government to appeal to review its 2015 verdict on the 鈥榳arrant of precedence鈥�, the official ranking of key constitutional office holders.
The Appellate Division on Thursday began hearing a review petition challenging its 2011 verdict that annulled the constitutional provision for a non-party caretaker government, a system once credited with ensuring neutral national elections in Bangladesh...
Survivors and families of the victims of the August 21, 2004 grenade attacks look to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking justice 21 years after the attack on a rally of the then opposition Awami League in Dhaka...
In a strongly worded full verdict, the Appellate Division has observed that if it discharges a rule issued by the High Court under article 102 of the constitution the decision amounts to 鈥榡udicial anarchy鈥� and is unconstitutional and void from the outset...
THE number of cases pending with the courts has reached a little more than 4.33 million as of March. Subordinate courts have about 3.69 million cases pending, the High Court Division of the Supreme Court 599,000 cases pending and the Appellate Division 34,926 cases, as 抖阴精品 reported on August 10. There were about 4.05 million cases, keeping to Supreme Court...
The backlog of cases in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh continues to grow, with data showing a steady increase in pending matters across both the High Court and Appellate Division 鈥� raising concerns about the pace and impact of ongoing judicial reforms.
The Appellate Division has dismissed a government appeal challenging the entitlement of bench readers and bench officers to selection grade benefits, upholding earlier decisions of the High Court Division.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday set July 30 to deliver its verdict on the appeal filed by Mobarak Hossain, a former Jamaat-e-Islami member and an expelled Awami League leader, challenging his death sentence for committing war crimes during the country鈥檚 liberation war...
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday nominated justice Md Rezaul Haque as judge-in-chamber-1 and justice Farah Mahbub as judge-in-chamber-2, forming two chamber judge courts to dispose of emergency matters at the Appellate Division...
Political parties at the National Consensus Commission鈥檚 dialogue session on Thursday recommended replacing the term 鈥榠nternal disturbance鈥� with 鈥榮ecurity threats to the state鈥檚 sovereignty and territorial integrity鈥� in the constitution鈥檚 article 141A that relates to the proclamation of emergency...
The Appellate Division on Sunday stayed its March 1, 2018 order that upheld the Bangladesh Judicial Service (Disciplinary) Rules 2017, framed during the Awami League regime...
The Appellate Division on Tuesday overturned its 2019 judgement that had upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam for crimes against humanity and genocide committed during the 1971 liberation war...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ruled that products, including edible oil, sugar, cement, and iron, manufactured in the country鈥檚 economic zones are not exempted from value-added tax, overturning a High Court verdict that had declared such taxation illegal...
The Appellate Division on Wednesday quashed the corruption proceedings against former housing and public works minister and senior Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Mirza Abbas over alleged irregularities in allocating government land for a journalists鈥� cooperative society in Mirpur...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned until May 26 the hearing of a state petition seeking permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that had acquitted BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday cleared all legal hurdles for Shamsun Nahar, mother of detained International Crimes Tribunal prosecutor Tureen Afroz, and Shamsun Nahar鈥檚 only son, Shahnawaz Ahmed Shishir, to take...
The Appellate Division鈥檚 chamber judge on Wednesday withdrew an order that stayed the High Court鈥檚 bail granted to former International Society for Krishna Consciousness leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari in a sedition case over alleged desecration of the national flag...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is likely to hold hearing on a leave to appeal petition filed by the state against the High Court judgment that acquitted all the people convicted by the lower court in murder and the Explosives Substances Act cases filed over the 2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka, on May 4.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday scrapped all proceedings in the money laundering case against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and seven others, bringing an end to a contentious legal battle that had drawn national and international attention for two years...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday set May 6 for the hearing on a petition filed by condemned war criminal and Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam seeking a review of the court鈥檚 earlier decision upholding his death sentence.
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has constituted two more benches in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in an effort to ease the growing backlog of pending cases.
Justice AKM Asaduzzaman, the senior-most High Court judge, and Justice Farah Mahbub, the fourth in seniority among High Court judges, have been elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court...
The Appellate Division on Wednesday set April 23 for delivering its verdict on Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus鈥� appeal to quash a money laundering case against him...
The Appellate Division on Thursday ruled that headteachers of all government primary schools must receive salaries as Class II officers under the Selection Grade X pay scale, effective from March 9, 2014.
The Anti-Corruption Commission鈥檚 lawyer on Tuesday conceded to the arguments presented before the Appellate Division by businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun鈥檚 lawyer seeking Mamun鈥檚 acquittal in a Tk 20-crore money laundering case...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned till March 12 its hearing on an appeal challenging the High Court judgment that declared illegal the government circulars and gazette notifications regarding minimum age of freedom fighters...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed a High Court order that had halted the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission鈥檚 directive to appoint 11 independent directors to three financially troubled companies of the Beximco Group, where detained businessman Salman F Rahman is a shareholder...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the High Court directive to remove illegal structures built by Bangladesh Jatiya Matsyajibi Samity Ltd inside the boundary of the Karnaphuli River, clearing the way for long-delayed action against encroachment on one of the country鈥檚 most vital waterways...
