Staff Reporter :
Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique on Thursday said the lawyers should maintain the highest standard of morality during the case arguments. He also said the lawyers should not try to get any favorable order in the interest of the clients by misleading the court.
The Chief Justice said, “We ourselves shall be hundred percent honest in case arguments. We should not get any favorable order in the interest of our clients by misleading the court. We have to maintain the highest standard of morality.”
He, as the chief guest, said this while inaugurating the annual book fair of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) on the bar premises.
Giving importance to more and more study the Chief Justice argues, “So I will say, let’s all study together. There is no alternative to study. Especially the lawyers have no
choice but to study. There is no shortcut method to success. You have to study more and more.”
Referring to the Holy Quran the Chief Justice continues, “The first word of the Holy Quran is ‘Read’. If you want to know, you have to read. Many times we behave as if we have read a lot. But when I continue to read, then it seems that how unknown am I. Particularly, when we sit down to judge, then we see how little we have studied before we sat on the bench.”
Senior judges of the Appellate Division, Justice Md Nuruzzaman, Justice Borhanuddin and Justice M Enayetur Rahim, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin, SCBA Secretary Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal and other lawyers of the SCBA were present at the programme.
Though the Chief Justice inaugurated the annual book fair of the SCBA on Thursday, it basically started on February 7. It will continue for 15 days. It was seen that the shoppers were flocking to the stalls.
Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal, Secretary of the SCBA, said more than 50 stalls have been set up in the book fair.
The fair was organised for the first time in 2015, sources said. Since then the event has been going on regularly every year. But presence of the shoppers are less than other years as all the benches of the Appellate and High Court Divisions are conducting trial proceedings through virtual process.
