Fazlul Karim made new Chief Justice

Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, the senior-most Judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, was yesterday appointed the Chief Justice of the country.
As per Article 95(1) of the Constitution, President Md Zillur Rahman gave the appointment. Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, the 18th Chief Justice of the country, will replace the incumbent Chief Justice Md Tafazzul Islam who will go on retirement on February 7, 2010 as his tenure will expire on the day.
The new CJ will go on retirement on September 30 this year.
Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim was appointed as Additional Judge of the High Court Division of the SC on November 1, 1992. He was made regular judge of the court on November 1, 1994.
On May 15, 2001, he was elevated to the position of judge of the Appellate Division.
He was born on September 30, 1943 in the family of Abdul Karim Shahitya Bisharad at Suchakradandi village under Patiya Police Station in Chittagong.
Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, son of late Al-haj Ahmed Kabir and late Sunia Ara Begum, obtained LLB from the University of Dhaka (DU) in 1964.
He was enrolled as an Advocate of the District Court, Chittagong in 1965, in the High Court Division in 1970 and in the Appellate Division in 1979.
He was elected Secretary to the Supreme Court Bar Association in 1982 and a member of the Bangladesh Bar Council in 1992.
Currently, he is also Chairman of the Judicial Service Pay Commission and Member of the Delhi-based Asia Pacific Advisory Forum on “Judicial Education on Gender Equality Issue”.
He was Chairman of the Court Administration and Court Management Scheme of Capacity Building Project, Member of the Scheme for Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution under the aid programme of USIS.
He participated in the conferences on ‘Judicial Education on Gender Equality Issue” held in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal in 1998-2006.
He also participated in the SAARC Law Conference held in Dhaka, conference on Prison Reform in South East Asia held at Kathmandu of Nepal in 1996.
He visited different Courts and Institutions to observe case management, court administration and alternative dispute resolution in UK and USA in 2002.

Courtesy of The New Nation