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Lawyers won't call 'My Lord' to new HC judges

Term their appointments political

Staff Correspondent
The appointment of 19 additional judges to the High Court has triggered resentment among lawyers who described the recruitment as the worst-case example of political motives.
The Supreme Court Bar Association yesterday at an emergency requisition meeting resolved that the judges whom the lawyers called unqualified should not be addressed as "My Lord" which should be replaced by a new term in consultation with the association.
Bar members conveyed a written resolution to Chief Justice Syed
JR Mudassir Husain, requesting him not to swear the appointees into office -- an appeal that fell flat as the judges took oath administered by the chief justice later in the day.
"The appointment breached the principles of integrity, honesty and professional efficiency," the Bar alleged in the resolution, adding the government wants to hold sway over the judiciary, handpicking persons for the bench.
The BNP-led coalition government appointed the 19 in a fourth recruitment, taking the number of judges appointed to the High Court to 45 since 2002.
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Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad, an association of lawyers, decided to boycott court across the country tomorrow to protest the appointment of judges on what it said were political grounds.
The appointees include a daughter and nephews of a former minister and BNP lawmakers, while another was a leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, an Islamic student organisation patronised by coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami.
Another new judge, defeated in the last election to the Supreme Court Bar Association, contested it on the BNP slate.
The Bar said the appointment and swearing-in of the judges were done in a hurry, which the lawyers called unprecedented. The lawyers did not felicitate the new judges.
The Bar association president, Rokanuddin Mahmud, told The Daily Star that it was unprecedented to become a judge of the High Court from the position of assistant attorney general. "I didn't know many of them in
my 28-year career. Some of them are controversial persons in profession and ethically."
Lawyers' organisations have been agitating for the last three years against such appointments, prompting Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to assure them of further recruitment in consultation with them, but no consultation was made.
The coalition government did not confirm the services of 15 additional judges appointed during the Awami League rule.
Five of the new judges are from the judicial service: Abdul Hye, Qamrul Islam Siddiqi, Fazlur Rahman, Mainul Islam Chowdhury and Emdadul Haq.
Five are government law officers: Syed Abu Kowser Mohammad Dabirus-shan, Ataur Rahman Khan, Sheikh Abdul Awal, SM Emdadul Haq and Farah Mahbub.
Nine are from the Bar: Shahidul Islam, Nirmalendu Dhar, Rais Uddin, Emdadul Haq Azad, ABM Hatem Ali, Syed Mohammad Ziaul Karim, Rezaul Huq, Faisal Mahmud Faizi and Mamnun Rahman.