Md. Muzammel Hossain (born 17 January 1948) is a Bangladeshi jurist who served as the 20th

Chief Justice of Bangladesh The chief justice of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশের প্রধান বিচারপতি — ) is the chief amongst the judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, and also head of the whole judicial establishments, includ ...

Early life and education

Hossain was born in

Kishoreganj Kishoreganj is a city and the headquarters of Kishoreganj District Kishoreganj ( bn, কিশোরগঞ্জ) is a district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. Earlier it was a Mohkuma (মহকুমা) under the Mymensingh district. It ...

on 17 January 1948 to Ahmed Hossain. Hossain obtained his LLB degree in 1970, MA degree in journalism in 1971 from the

University of Dhaka The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently i ...

, LLM degree from

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

in 1977 and Barrister-at-Law from Hon'ble Society of

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, London, UK in 1980. Hossain participated in a seminar on Racial Equality in UK in 1976, a conference at UK on "The Courts of the Commonwealth and Judicial Precedent in the Commonwealth" in 1977 and the Saarc Law Conference in Pakistan in 1977. Hossain worked as a law faculty at University of Miadiguri in Nigeria, a professor at City Law College, Dhanmondi Law College and Bhuiyan Academy in Dhaka, and an examiner of both LLB (Hons) and LLM Examinations at the University of Dhaka.

Career

Hossain was enrolled as an advocate of the District Court and the High Court (HC) Division of SC in February, 1971 and 1978 respectively. Hossain was elevated to the post of judge of the High Court Division on 27 April 1998, and judge of the Appellate Division on 16 July 2009. He became Chairman of the Bangladesh Judicial Service Pay Commission on 16 May 2010. On 18 May 2011, Hossain became the Chief Justice of Bangladesh.

Judgments

During his judgeship period in the Appellate Division, Hossain delivered a number of landmark judgments including those on the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the 5th and 13th amendments to the constitution.

References

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