Staff Reporter :
The prevalence of rule of law checks any arbitrary exercise of power by the government, said Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Tuesday.
“If rule of law does not exist, whims and caprice of the authorities would prevail leading to serious violation of peoples’ rights and government’s
obligations while human dignity would be trampled under,” he said.
The Chief Justice said this while addressing at the concluding session of a seminar on “Judicial Independence” at Bangladesh Supreme Court Auditorium, organised by the Supreme Court in association with Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association.
He said that all modern societies throughout the world, imbued with ideals of democracy, human rights and economic development aspirations, strive to achieve the goal of enforcing rule of law.
“In fact in a democratic setup people take it for granted. Rule of law has many facets,” he added.
The attainment of social, cultural and human rights and also rapid sustainable development would not be possible in a country where the law does not rule.
“Instead, it is ruled by the authorities in power,” he further said.
He said the most important pillar of the constitutional edifice in Bangladesh is rule of law.
“Everyone, whether individually or collectively is unquestionably under the rule of law,” he said, adding, “In our democratic polity under the constitution based on the concept of ‘rule of law’ which we have adopted and given to ourselves and which serves as an aorta in the anatomy of our democratic system, The Law is Supreme.”
The CJ said as an independent judiciary, under the scheme of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the court has played its role effectively in acting as a watchdog through judicial review over the acts of the legislature and the executive.
He urged people to gather knowledge about the present judicial system.
“Of the total people of a country, I am sure more than half of the people do not know what actually is meant by the separation of the judiciary and for that matter what is the bright side of the proposed separated judicial system,” he said.
“To address these questions, we should have at least an average knowledge of our present judicial system,” he went on.
The prevalence of rule of law checks any arbitrary exercise of power by the government, said Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Tuesday.
“If rule of law does not exist, whims and caprice of the authorities would prevail leading to serious violation of peoples’ rights and government’s
obligations while human dignity would be trampled under,” he said.
The Chief Justice said this while addressing at the concluding session of a seminar on “Judicial Independence” at Bangladesh Supreme Court Auditorium, organised by the Supreme Court in association with Commonwealth Secretariat and Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association.
He said that all modern societies throughout the world, imbued with ideals of democracy, human rights and economic development aspirations, strive to achieve the goal of enforcing rule of law.
“In fact in a democratic setup people take it for granted. Rule of law has many facets,” he added.
The attainment of social, cultural and human rights and also rapid sustainable development would not be possible in a country where the law does not rule.
“Instead, it is ruled by the authorities in power,” he further said.
He said the most important pillar of the constitutional edifice in Bangladesh is rule of law.
“Everyone, whether individually or collectively is unquestionably under the rule of law,” he said, adding, “In our democratic polity under the constitution based on the concept of ‘rule of law’ which we have adopted and given to ourselves and which serves as an aorta in the anatomy of our democratic system, The Law is Supreme.”
The CJ said as an independent judiciary, under the scheme of the constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the court has played its role effectively in acting as a watchdog through judicial review over the acts of the legislature and the executive.
He urged people to gather knowledge about the present judicial system.
“Of the total people of a country, I am sure more than half of the people do not know what actually is meant by the separation of the judiciary and for that matter what is the bright side of the proposed separated judicial system,” he said.
“To address these questions, we should have at least an average knowledge of our present judicial system,” he went on.
