HC Former Judges
Petition to allow law practice
The government yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court, seeking its permission to restore the constitutional provisions allowing the retired High Court judges to practise law in the Appellate Division.
The petition prayed to the SC to modify its observations in the judgment on the fifth amendment to the constitution, so that article 99 (2) of the constitution can be restored, and the retired High Court judges can conduct cases before it.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told reporters that a full bench of the Appellate Division will hear the petition today.
The Appellate Division in the judgment on the constitution's fifth amendment case did not specifically say anything about article 99 (2), he said.
But the government has reprinted the constitution excluding article 99 (2), and therefore that the provision of original constitution of 1972 has been restored prohibiting the retired HC judges to run legal profession at SC, he said.
The attorney general also said that the government has filed the petition for restoring the article until the parliament amends the charter.
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