Law Minister Anisul Huq said on Saturday that the government would not seek stakeholders’ opinion on the bill empowering the Parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges, but they would verily be consulted at the time of enacting law.
“The law will, however, be formulated in consultation with all stakeholders, including lawyers and civil society members,” he told journalists after attending a conference in Dhaka.
National Legal Aid Services Organisation and Community Legal Services jointly organised the conference titled ‘National Conference on Access to Justice Through Partnership with Government Legal Aid and NGOs’ in a city hotel yesterday.
On September 7, the government placed the constitutional amendment bill empowering the Parliament to impeach Supreme Court judges on grounds of misconduct, and incapacity.
The existing constitutional provision of removing the Supreme Court Judge through the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) will cease to exist once the bill is passed.
Since the cabinet on August 18 approved the proposal for the constitutional amendment, many jurists, civil society organisations, personalities and opposition parties have been urging the government to refrain from abolishing the SJC.
