The President on Friday appointed Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, second senior most judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, as the new Chief Justice (CJ) of the country.
Joynal Abedin, Press Secretary to the President, confirmed the news to the journalists.
The new Chief Justice will be sworn-in around 7:00 pm today (Saturday) at the Bangabhaban, Joynal said.
Law Secretary, Abu Saleh Sk Md Zahirul Haque, said
that the Ministry had received the letter signed by the President for appointing the new CJ yesterday afternoon. A notification is supposed to be published on the website of the Ministry.
The post of the Chief Justice fell vacant after Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha resigned on November 10 last year.
Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, the senior most judge of the Appellate Division, was performing functions as the Acting CJ since October 3 last year.
Born on December 31 in 1954 in the district of Comilla, Justice Mahmud obtained BSc, LLB and completed six-month long “Commonwealth Young Lawyers Course” from the School of Oriental African Studies and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, both parts of London University.
He was enrolled as an Advocate of the District Court and the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court in the year of 1981 and 1983 respectively. Mahmud Hossain also acted as Deputy Attorney General from December, 1999 till elevation to the Bench.
He was elevated as an additional judge of the High Court Division on February 22 in 2001 and was appointed permanent judge on February 22 in 2003. Later he was moved to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on February 23 in 2011. Finally he was picked up as Chief Justice in the month of February.
In 2012, Mahmud visited courts of Canada and USA under the Judicial Strengthening (JUST) Project supported by UNDP to share experience and exchange views with judges of those countries for improving justice delivery system.
As per birth date, Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain will be in the post till December 30 in 2021.
