Ashutosh Sarkar

More than two years after the Supreme Court asked the High Court to "expeditiously rehear" and dispose of appeals

The law ministry yesterday dismissed a lower court judge from his service for committing misconduct and corruption.

The High Court is likely to finish the hearing of the BDR carnage case in November this year, as it has already completed majority of the proceedings.

The High Court yesterday released the full text of the verdict in the Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master killing case

The process for recruiting 215 new lower courts judges is underway to fill vacant posts and ease the massive case backlog.

The authorities of Modhumoti Model Town (MMT) and Rajuk are yet to implement the Supreme Court directives to restore the wetlands of Savar where the housing scheme was developed, citing five review petitions pending with it against the verdict.

The government must pay Tk 50 lakh in compensation to a man for his wrongful conviction in a rape case 12 years ago, the High Court ruled yesterday. Abdul Jalil of Char Fashion in Bhola was only 15 when the rape incident took place in 2001.

The High Court is likely to deliver a final decision on the legality of empowering administrative officials to perform judicial functions this month, as it is about to finish hearing arguments on the seven-year-old relevant writ petition.

The Supreme Court yesterday convicted Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq and fined them Tk 50,000 each for committing contempt of court by making contemptuous and derogatory comments about Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.

The Law Commission has drafted the Liberation War Denial Crimes Act, 2016 with a provision for five years' imprisonment as the highest punishment for denial of historically established facts and settled issues.

The Supreme Court is now set to hear and settle the appeal of war criminal Mobarak Hossain against his conviction as it is at the top of such petitions.

A draft law has outlined the ways for removing Supreme Court judges for “incapacity” and “misbehaviour,” giving them scopes for self-defence in writing and through lawyers.

The Supreme Court yesterday issued a contempt rule on two ministers for their bitter criticisms of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in relation to the hearing of an appeal of war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali.

The Supreme Court is set to deliver today the verdict on the appeal of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali challenging his conviction amid some “unexpected comments” by two ministers on the chief justice.

The case disposal rate at courts across the country increased remarkably last year as the Supreme Court authorities have taken some measures to update court and case management.

The government has taken an initiative to promote three High Court judges to the Appellate Division, as the apex court has been going through a shortage of judges for more than two years.

The age-old printed cause list, a roll of cases to be heard by the court on any day, will be abolished at the High Court on February 1, as

The government may bring a change in the prosecution and investigation teams dealing with war crimes as suggested by the Supreme Court after it found neglect and incompetence in handling the case against Delawar Hossain Sayedee.

The majority of the five Supreme Court judges, who reviewed the death sentence on war crimes convict Delwar Hossain Sayedee, had commuted his sentence to life imprisonment in September last year because a life sentence appeared to them to be "proportionate to the gravity of the crime" he committed, according to the full verdict released yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday observed that the freedom of the press is not “absolute, unlimited and unfettered at all times and in all circumstances as would lead to disorder and anarchy”.