Staff Reporter :
A group of Supreme Court lawyers on Sunday organized a human chain programme on the Supreme Court premises demanding resumption of the regular activities in all courts across the country immediately maintaining health guidelines and social distancing.
The lawyers alleged that most of the lawyers are not familiar to the virtual court system and they didn’t have any training to conduct cases in such courts.
As a result most of them could not file any case in the virtual courts and the lawyers had fallen into serious financial crisis as they were not conducting the cases for more than three months.
The lawyers group in the name of ‘General Lawyers Council’ was holding a series of protest programs to meet their demand. Earlier on July 16, they organized a foot march programme to the residence of the Chief Justice but the police foiled it.
Advocate Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi, Convener of ‘General Lawyers Council’ and a former Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association, urged the Supreme Court Bar Association leaders to stand beside the common lawyers over the issue. Otherwise, their rooms would be locked after the Eid vacation, threatened the lawyer.
He blamed the Supreme Court Bar President and Secretary for not opening the regular court activities in the Supreme Court. It is their (President and Secretary) responsibility to place the demand to the Chief Justice, added Momtaz Uddin.
Advocate Rafiqul Islam Talukder Raja, one of the participant lawyers, urged the Chief Justice receive the opinions of the common lawyers over the virtual court and to open the regular court activities immediately.
The lawyer also urged to the Bangladesh Bar Council leaders to consider the demand of the lawyers as they are the representatives of the lawyers across the country.
A group of Supreme Court lawyers on Sunday organized a human chain programme on the Supreme Court premises demanding resumption of the regular activities in all courts across the country immediately maintaining health guidelines and social distancing.
The lawyers alleged that most of the lawyers are not familiar to the virtual court system and they didn’t have any training to conduct cases in such courts.
As a result most of them could not file any case in the virtual courts and the lawyers had fallen into serious financial crisis as they were not conducting the cases for more than three months.
The lawyers group in the name of ‘General Lawyers Council’ was holding a series of protest programs to meet their demand. Earlier on July 16, they organized a foot march programme to the residence of the Chief Justice but the police foiled it.
Advocate Momtaz Uddin Ahmed Mehedi, Convener of ‘General Lawyers Council’ and a former Secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association, urged the Supreme Court Bar Association leaders to stand beside the common lawyers over the issue. Otherwise, their rooms would be locked after the Eid vacation, threatened the lawyer.
He blamed the Supreme Court Bar President and Secretary for not opening the regular court activities in the Supreme Court. It is their (President and Secretary) responsibility to place the demand to the Chief Justice, added Momtaz Uddin.
Advocate Rafiqul Islam Talukder Raja, one of the participant lawyers, urged the Chief Justice receive the opinions of the common lawyers over the virtual court and to open the regular court activities immediately.
The lawyer also urged to the Bangladesh Bar Council leaders to consider the demand of the lawyers as they are the representatives of the lawyers across the country.
