Ashutosh Sarkar

Shortage of judges at the Supreme Court and other courts across the country is getting worse and creating a huge backlog of cases due to recruitment delays.

The government has initiated a process to formulate a specific law on appointment of judges to the High Court amid

The government is yet to bring any changes in the prosecution team dealing with war crimes cases as suggested by the

Of the 100 candidates the Bangladesh Judicial Service Commission (BJSC) recommended for recruitment as lower court judges, President Abdul Hamid has approved 79 and dropped 21.

Case backlogs have been building up at the High Court due to shortage of judges with no government move in sight for fresh appointment.

The Supreme Court yesterday released the full text of its verdict on the appeal against a 2010 High Court order, observing that

Forty-one years have passed since the assassination of four national leaders at the Dhaka Central Jail on this very day in 1975.

Twenty-one candidates who have been recommended for the posts of lower court judges by the Judicial Service Commission

More than two years after the Supreme Court asked the High Court to "expeditiously rehear" and dispose of appeals

The law ministry yesterday dismissed a lower court judge from his service for committing misconduct and corruption.

The High Court is likely to finish the hearing of the BDR carnage case in November this year, as it has already completed majority of the proceedings.

The High Court yesterday released the full text of the verdict in the Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master killing case

The process for recruiting 215 new lower courts judges is underway to fill vacant posts and ease the massive case backlog.

The authorities of Modhumoti Model Town (MMT) and Rajuk are yet to implement the Supreme Court directives to restore the wetlands of Savar where the housing scheme was developed, citing five review petitions pending with it against the verdict.

The government must pay Tk 50 lakh in compensation to a man for his wrongful conviction in a rape case 12 years ago, the High Court ruled yesterday. Abdul Jalil of Char Fashion in Bhola was only 15 when the rape incident took place in 2001.

The High Court is likely to deliver a final decision on the legality of empowering administrative officials to perform judicial functions this month, as it is about to finish hearing arguments on the seven-year-old relevant writ petition.

The Supreme Court yesterday convicted Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq and fined them Tk 50,000 each for committing contempt of court by making contemptuous and derogatory comments about Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The Law Commission has drafted the Liberation War Denial Crimes Act, 2016 with a provision for five years' imprisonment as the highest punishment for denial of historically established facts and settled issues.

The Supreme Court is now set to hear and settle the appeal of war criminal Mobarak Hossain against his conviction as it is at the top of such petitions.

A draft law has outlined the ways for removing Supreme Court judges for “incapacity” and “misbehaviour,” giving them scopes for self-defence in writing and through lawyers.