Gazette issued over appointing Chief Justice

Staff Correspondent: A Gazette Notification has been issued appointing Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC), as 22th chief justice of the country.

The notification was published on the website of Law Ministry on Friday evening.

The appointment will be effective from the date of taking oath, according to the notification.

Earlier, Joynal Abedin, press secretary to the president, said the new chief justice will be sworn-in around 7:00pm on Saturday at the Bangabhaban.

The post of the chief justice fell vacant after Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha resigned on November 10 last year after he went on leave on health ground in October.

Justice Md Abdul Wahhab Miah, the senior most judge of the appellate division, performed functions as the CJ from October 3 last year.

Bio of the new chief justice

Born in 1954, Justice Mahmud obtained BSc and LLB degrees and completed the six-month long “Commonwealth Young Lawyers” course at the School of Oriental African Studies and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of London University.

He was enrolled as advocate of the District Court and the High Court Division of Supreme Court in 1981 and 1983 respectively.

Mahmud also acted as deputy attorney general from December 1999 until he was elevated to the bench.

He was elevated as additional judge of the High Court Division in February 2001 and as judge of the division in February 2003.

In February 2011, Mahmud was elevated to the Supreme Court’s Appellate Division.

He visited the courts of Canada and the United States in 2012 under the Judicial Strengthening (JUST) Project supported by the United Nations Development Programme to share his experience and exchange views with judges of those countries for improving justice delivery system.

Mahmud also participated in various international seminars and symposiums in Malaysia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, India, South Korea and Hong Kong.

 

risingbd/Dhaka/February 2, 2018/Mehade/A K Azad