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Court Secretariat in early December, with the goal of bringing the judiciary under the Supreme Court and making it fully independent.

Later, several officials and staff members, including the 15 lower court judges, were given responsibility for running functions of the Supreme Court Secretariat.

On April 2 this year, a special parliamentary committee, reviewing interim government ordinances, recommended that 20 of them be allowed to lapse or expire, including the Supreme Court Secretariat Ordinance.

On April 3, Law Minister Md Asaduzzaman told The Daily Star that the BNP government will further scrutinise ordinances issued by the interim government to ensure judicial independence, correcting them before reintroducing them as bills in parliament.

“We have not said that we will not approve those ordinances. We are just deferring it for consultation with stakeholders as there are some errors. We will further scrutinise and correct the ordinances and bring those as bills in parliament later on.”