Staff Reporter :
The century-old practice of printed cause list, everyday list of cases awaiting hearing, will be abolished in the High Court from February 15, as the cause list will go online from that day. The cause list will be visible on the website of the Supreme Court for everyone staying anywhere, said the SC officials.
SC Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam told The New Nation on Friday that the printing era will end from February 15. The High Court judges will make serial numbers for hearing of the cases and the list will be posted on the SC website www.supremecourt.gov.bd after 8:00 pm before the day of the hearing, he said.
He said that the new practice will save Tk. 21 crore every year spent for publishing the cause lists of over 2000 containing 400 to 500 pages.
After introduction of the online system, the bench officials will not be able to change the serial numbers like earlier by taking bribes, he added.
The Supreme Court authorities were set to abolish this age-old system on February 1. But they had to change the decision responding to the call of the SC lawyers, who demanded continuing publishing the cause lists at least for another 15 days to make them habituated with the new system.
Syed Aminul Islam said that Chief Justice SK Sinha changed his earlier decision in this regard at the request of the SC lawyers, and asked the officials concerned to keep the printed cause list running till February 15.
A team of the SC lawyers, led by SCBA President Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain and Bangladesh Bar Council’s Vice Chairman Abdul Baset Majumder, met the Chief Justice at his office on Thursday and requested him to keep the system of printed cause list for some days so that they can adjust with the online cause list.
The Chief Justice decided in July last year to introduce such online system to save time and cost as well as remove corruption. A few years ago such online cause list was introduced in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court though its printed cause list is still published every day.
According to the new system, the bail confirmation reports of the HC will also go online, which will be visible only for the court officials across the country with special passwords.
Syed Aminul Islam said that keeping the bail confirmation reports invisible for the parties of the cases, law enforcing agencies and the common people still creates the scopes of harassing the justice seekers.
The Registrar General, however, said that unscrupulous staff of the court could still be involved in corruption and deceive the parties of the cases, as the passwords are remaining within themselves. Police can arrest accused even after the HC grants them bail, he added.
The century-old practice of printed cause list, everyday list of cases awaiting hearing, will be abolished in the High Court from February 15, as the cause list will go online from that day. The cause list will be visible on the website of the Supreme Court for everyone staying anywhere, said the SC officials.
SC Registrar General Syed Aminul Islam told The New Nation on Friday that the printing era will end from February 15. The High Court judges will make serial numbers for hearing of the cases and the list will be posted on the SC website www.supremecourt.gov.bd after 8:00 pm before the day of the hearing, he said.
He said that the new practice will save Tk. 21 crore every year spent for publishing the cause lists of over 2000 containing 400 to 500 pages.
After introduction of the online system, the bench officials will not be able to change the serial numbers like earlier by taking bribes, he added.
The Supreme Court authorities were set to abolish this age-old system on February 1. But they had to change the decision responding to the call of the SC lawyers, who demanded continuing publishing the cause lists at least for another 15 days to make them habituated with the new system.
Syed Aminul Islam said that Chief Justice SK Sinha changed his earlier decision in this regard at the request of the SC lawyers, and asked the officials concerned to keep the printed cause list running till February 15.
A team of the SC lawyers, led by SCBA President Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain and Bangladesh Bar Council’s Vice Chairman Abdul Baset Majumder, met the Chief Justice at his office on Thursday and requested him to keep the system of printed cause list for some days so that they can adjust with the online cause list.
The Chief Justice decided in July last year to introduce such online system to save time and cost as well as remove corruption. A few years ago such online cause list was introduced in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court though its printed cause list is still published every day.
According to the new system, the bail confirmation reports of the HC will also go online, which will be visible only for the court officials across the country with special passwords.
Syed Aminul Islam said that keeping the bail confirmation reports invisible for the parties of the cases, law enforcing agencies and the common people still creates the scopes of harassing the justice seekers.
The Registrar General, however, said that unscrupulous staff of the court could still be involved in corruption and deceive the parties of the cases, as the passwords are remaining within themselves. Police can arrest accused even after the HC grants them bail, he added.
