Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq yesterday invited all development partners active in supporting justice sector reform to engage with the justice audit and design their interventions in support of future steps, reports BSS. “I along with the home minister have started a forum for inter-ministerial dialogue, together with police, prisons etc. to agree on options for future reform. I’m confident that the findings of the justice audit will steer and support this discussion. We’ll use the inter-ministerial forum to identify, prioritise and set concrete targets for change in policy and practice,” Huq said.

The law minister said these while addressing the launching of National Justice Audit (NJA) programme at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) yesterday afternoon. Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain addressed the function as the chief guest, while Law Division Secretary Abu Saleh Sheikh Md Zahirul Haque, Deputy Head of Mission of German Embassy Michael Schultheiss, Head of DFID Bangladesh Jane Edmondson, Head of Rule of Law Programme of GIZ Permita Sengupta, addressed the function, among others.  “To my knowledge, with this endeavour, Bangladesh becomes the first country in the world to conduct such an audit of its entire justice system and I hope that other countries will learn from this example,” Anisul Huq added.