We still believe judiciary is still the last hope of people’s confidence. Therefore, people’s confidence has now become the main source of internal strength of the country’s judiciary system.
Country’s judiciary has achieved remarkable success and it is playing a key role in ensuring justice for people seeking justice in the higher and lower courts by conducting trial process. In this regard, we believe our judges will remain conscious about ever changing legal and technological issues along with attaining high moral value and character.
Marking the Supreme Court Day, President M Abdul Hamid on Saturday urged the judges to work hard more to reduce the number of pending cases which are the causes of the untold sufferings to the litigants.
The Supreme Court of independent Bangladesh was established on 16 December, 1972. As the day is a public holiday, the first court hearing was held on December 18. And since 2017 the day is being observed as the Supreme Court Day on 18 December every year.
The number of judges needs
to be made double in phases from lower to top courts in order
to reduce the backlogs
of cases
After the brutal assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, anti-liberation forces tried to kill democracy forever by imposing martial law in the country in many ways. But the Supreme Court of Bangladesh has established the democratic rights of the country’s people by declaring the 5th and 7th amendments to the constitution illegal. Therefore, the judges will be taking care of the litigants’ rights so that they do not have to roam in the court’s corridor day after day to get a copy of the judgement after the verdict of the case.
The government firmly believes in the independence of the judiciary and is making sincere efforts to increase the facilities of judges. The government is also very sincere in modernising the judiciary by taking up the task of implementing e-judiciary project to achieve the goal.
It has been noticed that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given special attention to the judiciary and undertook different initiatives for its development. Thus, an e-judiciary project is being implemented to develop the whole judiciary system. Besides, the government is also working to increase the number of judges for improvement of the judicial services. The number of judges is inadequate in proportion to the number of pending cases in courts. Therefore, the number of judges needs to be made double in phases from lower to top courts in order to reduce the backlogs of cases.
Besides, mediation process can play a big role in easing backlog of cases in courts. The mediation is mainly a process of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), which is being followed with much importance in the Indian subcontinent. All judges, lawyers and all other stakeholders will have to come forward in disposing of cases through mediation.
Therefore, we believe the Supreme Court will be working to protect the basic human rights, establish the rule of law and provide justice to the litigants as early as possible.
