Help poor litigants
Minister urges judges, lawyers
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday urged judges and lawyers to discharge their duties with a charitable mindset to provide the insolvent litigants with legal assistance.
The government has taken initiatives to strengthen its legal aid programme for assisting the poor litigants, and the judges and lawyers have to play key role to implement this programme, he said.
He was speaking as chief guest at a seminar on “Civil Procedure Amendment and National Legal Aid Programme” organised by Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division of the ministry of law at Hotel Sonargaon in the city.
The law minister said that the present government has established a separate office as Directorate of Legal Aid to provide the poor people with legal assistance without any cost in order to reduce their sufferings.
He urged the judges to settle the cases filed with legal assistance by the poor people on priority basis.
Shafique also requested the senior and experienced lawyers to involve themselves in disposing of those cases.
Shahidul Karim, secretary to the law and justice division of law ministry, presided over the seminar while State Minister for Law Qamrul Islam, Md Shahidul Huq, acting secretary to legislative and parliamentary affairs division, and Md Jahangir Hossain, district and sessions judge of Dhaka, among others, addressed it.
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