A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Thursday challenging a Bangladesh Bar Council gazette notification that enrolled a law graduate as an advocate of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court without any examination.
The enrolled advocate is a son of a sitting judge of the High Court Division.
Barrister Syed Sayedul Hoque Sumon, a Supreme Court lawyer, filed the writ petition with the section concerned of the High Court on Wednesday.
The Bangladesh Bar Council gazette issued on October 31 this year said, "The following name (Mohammad Zumman Siddique), a law graduate practitioner in the New Zealand High Court, has been added to the Roll of Advocates maintained by the Bangladesh Bar Council, under Article 20 of the legal practitioners and Bar Council order, 1972 is published in the official gazette…"
Barrister Syed Sayeedul Hoque Sumon said the authority enrolled the law graduate violating the rules and regulations of Bangladesh Bar Council. That is why we challenged the enrollment, he added.
The petitioner lawyer also said, "Mohammad Zumman Siddique failed two times in the enrollment examination of the bar council. Then the bar council gave him enrollment by issuing a gazette whereas thousands of law graduates of the country have to face a tough battle to get the bar council enrollment."
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