Gulam Rabbani :
More than 25,000 law graduates are passing their days in worrying situation as the Bangladesh Bar Council is delaying to hold enrollment examination.
The Council last held enrollment exam in April of 2015.
About 20,000 law graduates participated in that exam. Of them, 3,807 graduates were finally enrolled on May 14, 2016 after appearing three-step exam.
Sources said, more than 25,000 law graduates got registration from the Bar Council. They have been waiting for almost two years to sit for the new enrollment examination.
But the Bar Council is not setting any date for the new exam. That is frustrating the law graduates.
Earlier, the council used to take the test twice a year. But it took only one exam for the last two years. That is why the graduates are losing important time from their career, the sources said.
As per rule, an LLB graduates have to submit his intimation paper with an advocate in the council in the prescribed form. A graduate get registration form after he passes six months as a probationer with an advocate. This is the primary qualification to appear in the enrollment exam. Then he has to appear three-step exam.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, a member of the enrollment committee of the Bar Council, said a five-member committee is working on it. A judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) is the Chairman of the committee. The proceedings will start when all the members would meet. But he did not confirm the date.
Advocate Abdul Baset Majumder, another member of the enrollment committee and also Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council said the council does not have any negligence to enroll new graduates. The process is being delayed according to a case pending in
the Appellate division of the Supreme Court. He also said that the apex court would deliver the verdict on February 7. Further decision would be taken according to the judgment.
According to the rule, enrollment committee of the Bar Council is formed with a judge of the Appellate Division of the SC and two judges from the High Court (HC) Division, said Attorney General and an elected member of the Bar Council.
Sources said one HC judge, who is a member of the enrollment committee, has gone to retirement.
Another member of the Bar Council Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain said that earlier a committee by elected members of the council regulated the enrollment process. But now the Committee Chief is a judge of the Appellate Division and other two are judges of the HC Division. They are busy persons. That is why the enrollment exam could not be held regularly.
A suffered law graduate, who is waiting to be enrolled, said that he had to wait for six months to get registration after passing the degree. He got his registration in January of 2016. But no initiative was taken by the institute in last one and a half years to enroll the graduates.
He said this delay is wasting his important time of his career. On the other hand, his family is also passing time in anxiety. At least 25,000 graduates are waiting to be enrolled, he said.
More than 25,000 law graduates are passing their days in worrying situation as the Bangladesh Bar Council is delaying to hold enrollment examination.
The Council last held enrollment exam in April of 2015.
About 20,000 law graduates participated in that exam. Of them, 3,807 graduates were finally enrolled on May 14, 2016 after appearing three-step exam.
Sources said, more than 25,000 law graduates got registration from the Bar Council. They have been waiting for almost two years to sit for the new enrollment examination.
But the Bar Council is not setting any date for the new exam. That is frustrating the law graduates.
Earlier, the council used to take the test twice a year. But it took only one exam for the last two years. That is why the graduates are losing important time from their career, the sources said.
As per rule, an LLB graduates have to submit his intimation paper with an advocate in the council in the prescribed form. A graduate get registration form after he passes six months as a probationer with an advocate. This is the primary qualification to appear in the enrollment exam. Then he has to appear three-step exam.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam, a member of the enrollment committee of the Bar Council, said a five-member committee is working on it. A judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) is the Chairman of the committee. The proceedings will start when all the members would meet. But he did not confirm the date.
Advocate Abdul Baset Majumder, another member of the enrollment committee and also Vice-Chairman of the Bar Council said the council does not have any negligence to enroll new graduates. The process is being delayed according to a case pending in
the Appellate division of the Supreme Court. He also said that the apex court would deliver the verdict on February 7. Further decision would be taken according to the judgment.
According to the rule, enrollment committee of the Bar Council is formed with a judge of the Appellate Division of the SC and two judges from the High Court (HC) Division, said Attorney General and an elected member of the Bar Council.
Sources said one HC judge, who is a member of the enrollment committee, has gone to retirement.
Another member of the Bar Council Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain said that earlier a committee by elected members of the council regulated the enrollment process. But now the Committee Chief is a judge of the Appellate Division and other two are judges of the HC Division. They are busy persons. That is why the enrollment exam could not be held regularly.
A suffered law graduate, who is waiting to be enrolled, said that he had to wait for six months to get registration after passing the degree. He got his registration in January of 2016. But no initiative was taken by the institute in last one and a half years to enroll the graduates.
He said this delay is wasting his important time of his career. On the other hand, his family is also passing time in anxiety. At least 25,000 graduates are waiting to be enrolled, he said.
