NLA seeks share of court fees for lawyers’ welfare

Staff Reporter :

Senior Advocate Shah Md Khasruzzaman, president of Bangladesh National Lawyers Association and member of Bar Council, said that if a lawyer dies, his family currently receives Tk 5 to 10 lakh from the Bar Council’s benevolent fund.

Besides, it is very inadequate compared to the need due to lack of access to any other financial support.

So lawyers are entitled to a portion of the court fees deposited by the lawyers in the public coffers for the efforts of the lawyers.

The issue was never taken into consideration by any government in the past. He said that lawyers from all over the country have been deprived and believe that the interim government will take this matter into consideration on an urgent basis for humanitarian reasons.

He made this call in a statement given to the newspaper yesterday. Bangladesh National Bar Association is a non-partisan federation of all bar associations in the country.

In the statement, he thanked Attorney General Md. Asaduzzaman, chairman of the Bar Council, for unanimously demanding that the government pay a portion of the court fees deposited in the public treasury to the lawyers’ benevolent fund in the last Bar Council meeting.