'Amendment to CPC to create new problems'

Before enacting new laws or making amendments, all concerned should be consulted to reach a consensus on basic premises, they said.

The roundtable marking the two-year of completion of the present government was held at Judicial Administration Training Institute (JATI) auditorium with State Minister

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for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Shajahan Omar in the chair.

The main objective of the roundtable was to organise the opinion on the civil procedure code (2nd amendment) Act-2003.

The law was passed by parliament on July 19 but application was stayed due to objection raised by the lawyers.

Some of the participants opined that, the present amendment to civil procedure code would create new problems instead of solving the old ones.

Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Moudud Ahmed, Chief Whip Khandker Delwar Hossain, Suranjit Sengupta MP, Harun Al Rashid, MP, GM Quader MP, Vice-chairman of the Bangladesh Bar Council Barrister Amir-ul-Islam, Barrister Rafiq-ul-Haque, Open University Vice Chancellor Dr Ershadul Bari, Justice TH Khan and Dhaka Bar Association President Mohammed Israfil addressed the roundtable. Advocate Khandker Mahbubuddin Ahmed, MP, presented the keynote paper.

Moudud said, "the highest challenge before us was how to establish the rule of law in the country". He called for reforming the existing laws to suit the needs of time.

The law minister said the fundamental objectives of the amendment of civil procedure code are protecting the interest of the litigants, resisting the tendency to file cases for no apparent reason and ensuring justice in the shortage possible time.

He said it is possible to make a law more effective by `trial and error' method.