Newly appointed Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan will take oath as the 24th Chief Justice of Bangladesh tomorrow.<\/p>\n
President Mohammed Shahabuddin will administer the oath at Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban in a brief ceremony at 11am tomorrow, Supreme Court Registrar General Md Golam Rabbani told BSS.<\/p>\n
Hassan, a senior judge of the Appellate Division, has been appointed as the chief justice on September 12. He will replace Justice Hasan Foez Siddique as he retired today.<\/p>\n
A lawyer by background Obaidul Hassan was appointed as an additional judge of the Supreme Court’s High Court Division in 2009 while his appointment was confirmed as a permanent judge in 2011.<\/p>\n
He was elevated as a judge in the apex Appellate Division on September 3, 2020.<\/p>\n
On January 1, 1959, Hassan was born at Chayashi village under Mohanganj upazila in Netrokona district in a respected family with his parents being Dr Akhlaqul Hossain Ahmed and Begum Hosne Ara Hossain.<\/p>\n
Dr Akhlaqul Hossain Ahmed was one of 1971 Liberation War organisers, who took part as well in formulating independent Bangladesh’s first constitution being a member of the erstwhile Pakistan’s central Constituent Assembly.<\/p>\n
Hassan was appointed as the chairman of International Crimes Tribunal-2 on March 25, 2012 and in his capacity as the head of that court, popularly known as war crimes tribunal, until September 15, 2015, he pronounced 11 verdicts.<\/p>\n
Obaidul Hassan is married to Nafisa Banu, who currently serves as Member (Finance) of Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority Board of Directors.<\/p>\n
The couple has a son, Barrister Ahmed Shafquat Hassan, who obtained his LLM degree on International Law from the University of Durham in the UK.<\/p>\n
Obaidul Hassan’s younger brother Sajjadul Hassan is a parliament member (MP) from Netrokona-4 constituency while he previously served as a senior secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).<\/p>\n
Sajjadul Hassan also served as the chairman of board of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.<\/p>\n
Obaidul Hassan initially obtained his graduation and post graduation degree in Economics from Dhaka University ahead of studying law and made his debut as a practitioner in the Dhaka District Court in 1986 and got his enrolment in the High Court in 1988.<\/p>\n
He became an Appellate Division lawyer in 2005 and was appointed as an assistant attorney general and deputy attorney general for 5 years from 1996 to 2001.<\/p>\n
Being a High Court Justice Hassan was appointed as an International Crimes Tribunal-2 judge on March 25, 2012 and subsequently was made its chairman on December 13, 2012 and served in that position until September 15, 2015.<\/p>\n
He secured the apex court judgeship on September 3, 2020.<\/p>\n
As a Supreme Court judge Obaidul Hassan joined several international legal conferences in different countries in Hong Kong, Singapore, Netherlands and Argentina.<\/p>\n
He led the Bangladesh delegation to an international crimes conference in Buenos Aires in 2015 and in the same year he attended a view exchange meeting with the International Crimes Court and the International Crimes Tribunal judges in The Hague.<\/p>\n
Obaidul Hassan authored several books including ‘Obornonio Nirmomotar Chittro: Ekatturer Buddhijibi Hotyakando O Onnanya’ and ‘Bangabandhu Bangladesh: Ekjon Juddho Shishur Golpo O Onnanya’ and ‘Bangabandhu, Rabindranath O Oshamprodayeek Bangladesh’.<\/p>\n
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