Five new posts will be created for the Supreme Court's (SC) Appellate Division so that it becomes fully digitised. The Law and Justice Division of the law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry has prepared a proposal for creating five posts for the Appellate Division, and it will be placed at a meeting of the secretary committee on administrative improvement affairs to be held on Wednesday, sources in the law ministry said. According to the proposal, one post each of system analyst, assistant programmer, assistant maintenance engineer, computer operator and office assistant will be created.
In the proposal, Law and Justice Division secretary Abu Saleh Sk. Md. Zahirul Haque noted they had already prepared a proposal for creating the five posts according to the advice of the SC. “Already the public administration ministry and the finance ministry gave approval for creating the new posts of the SC's Appellate Division," the proposal said.
A letter, signed by Kazi Musfiqye Mahbub Robin, senior assistant secretary of the Law and Justice Division, says the five posts would be created for storage of all information relating to cases of the Appellate Division in a database.
“It will help complete the required work like maintaining and updating the website of the Bangladesh Supreme Court as well as the entry of cause list properly," the letter adds. Currently, the SC is updating its website with details of the cases heard and disposed at the Appellate Division and the High Court every day to ensure greater transparency and digitisation of the judiciary.
The SC website www.supremecourt.gov.bd also contains the daily cause list of both divisions with the names of the benches that will hear cases. According to SC sources, a number of cases await trial at the Appellate Division.