The Chief Justice said that the Public Interest Litigation is playing a vital role in ensuring human rights, transparency, accountability and practice of good governance in the administration.
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain made the statements on Saturday at a seminar on ‘Standing in Public Interest Litigation: An Outline’ at Supreme Court auditorium in the city. The Supreme Court Online Bulletin organised the function.
“In order to protect the country’s deprived and backward people, Public Interest Litigation is playing a crucial role. I’m urging the judiciary to cooperate with Public Interest Litigation in a bid to help the deprived and backward people,” said the Chief Justice.
“Considering the Public Interest Litigation as the model, the Judiciary will have to take it forward,” he underscored.
Justice Mainul Islam Chowdhury, presented the keynote paper at the seminar.
The Appellate Division Justice Mohammad Iman Ali, High Court Division Justice Syed Rifat Ahmed and Justice Sheikh Hasan Arif also attended the discussion.
The Chief Justice said, “The public interest litigation in the human rights judicial system helps move the judiciary forward as a domestic model.”
He said that since 1996, the Supreme Court began the process of widening the judicial role in the public interest litigation. Judiciary should be utilized through law and justice for the benefit of the people in public interest litigation.
The Chief Justice highlighted the importance of litigation in the public interest to keep people’s confidence in the judiciary, including the formulation of law and policy-making strategies.
Justice Mainul Islam Chowdhury highlighted the evolution of public interest litigation in the main article and cited various decisions of the British and Indian High Courts on the legal right to sue.
He pointed out that due to judicial activism in the High Court, people are getting remedy in public interest cases.
