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The High Court Division can hear a case or suit as Court of first instance. The jurisdiction of the High Court is described in Article 101 of the Constitution of Bangladesh. The High Court Division will deal with original cases, appeals and other judicial functions.
Ohidul Islam and Others v. The Government of Bangladesh and Others was a case brought before the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. [1] [2] The writ petition was filed three years after the Government of Bangladesh, amid the 2018 quota reform movement, issued a circular declaring the existing quotas for descendants of 1971 Liberation War veterans to be unconstitutional. [3]
The Supreme Court of Bangladesh is divided into two parts: the Appellate Division and the High Court Division. The High Court Division hears appeals from lower courts and tribunals; it also has original jurisdiction in certain limited cases, such as writ applications under Article 101 of the Constitution of Bangladesh, and company and admiralty matters.
The Bangladeshi judiciary faces a severe shortage of judges. As of July 2017, 1,268 judges deal with over 2.7 million cases in lower courts, 86 High Court justices deal with 431,000 cases and 6 Supreme Court justices deal with 13,000 cases. [3]
In one case the court went so far as to assert that hardly any real case occurred when the provision containing a "threat to the security of the state" was found to have been properly applied. [1] The case showed that the Bangladesh High Court had wider powers for judicial review than its regional counterparts in the rest of Asia. [3]
Khan started working as a lawyer at the District Courts on 1 April 1995. [4] He became a lawyer of the High Court Division 29 September 1996. [4] In May 2011, Khan became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. [4] President Mohammad Abdul Hamid appointed Khan an Additional Judge of the High Court Division on 31 May ...
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Sunday rolled back most of the controversial quotas on government jobs which sparked violent protests.. Under the quota system, some 30% of sought-after civil ...
On 21 October 2019, Hossain was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division. [ 2 ] In September 2021, Hossain and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman criticized the government for its failure to regulate the e-commerce market in Bangladesh and not taking steps to prevent fraud.