Appointment of SC Judges
Candidates' academic qualifications stressed
Speakers at a seminar yesterday stressed the need for framing specific guidelines and determining academic qualifications of candidates for their appointment as judges to the High Court and Appellate divisions.
Many of the sitting High Court judges have three or four third classes in their academic degrees, said Jatiya Party lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu, who has recently placed a bill in parliament on appointment of SC judges.
The bill proposed formation of a Superior Judicial Commission to recommend candidates' names to the president and sought an end to politicisation of the appointment and curtailment of government's sweeping authority over the process.
Addressing the seminar hosted by Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs in the capital, Law Commission's Acting Chairman Prof Shah Alam said lawyers should have a record of successful dealings in a minimum number of cases to become a SC judge candidate.
The constitution says a person shall be qualified for the appointment if he or she has been an advocate of the SC or has held a judicial office for at least 10 years.
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