Abdus Sattar was a Bangladeshi statesman. A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP),he served as the president of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982,and earlier as the vice president. A jurist by profession,Abdus Sattar held numerous constitutional and political offices in British India,East Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was a cabinet minister,supreme court judge,and chief election commissioner.
Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman. He was first Chief Justice of Bangladesh from 1972 to 1975. He became the president of Bangladesh in the aftermath of counter-coups in November 1975. He was made Chief Martial Law Administrator. Sayem presided over a cabinet headed by the three chiefs of the armed forces. The cabinet included civilian technocrats and politicians. Sayem resigned on grounds of ill health in April 1977,and was replaced by President Ziaur Rahman.
Kamal Hossain,better known as Dr. Kamal is a founding leader,lawyer and politician of Bangladesh. He is known as the "Father of the Bangladeshi Constitution" and regarded as an icon of secular democracy in the Indian subcontinent. Hossain currently heads his own law firm in Dhaka. He retired from political activities and from the post of president of Gano Forum in October 2023.
Muhammad Habibur Rahman was a Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1995. He was the Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh. He was a faculty member at the Department of Law,University of Rajshahi and University of Dhaka. Besides,being a language activist,advocate of the Bengali language,he wrote extensively and published eight books on the subject. He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He wrote Jathashabdo (1974),the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.
Abdur Rahman Biswas was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the President of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996. Biswas represented Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly prior to the independence of Bangladesh.
Makhdoom Ali Khan,is a Pakistani lawyer who is a Senior Advocate Supreme Court. Khan has held numerous positions,including Attorney General of Pakistan,chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council,member of the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan,board member of the Federal Judicial Academy of Pakistan and of the Sindh Judicial Academy.
Hossain Zillur Rahman is an academic,economist and policy maker from Bangladesh. He led the drafting of the poverty reduction strategy of the government in 2005 and was a member of the Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation (ISACPA). He founded the Dhaka-based think-tank Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) in 1996 and prior to that was for over twenty years a leading researcher at the Bangladesh Institute of development Studies.
Fazlul Karim was a Bangladeshi lawyer,businessman,politician and soldier. He was the first mayor of Cox's Bazar.
Anwarul Iqbal was an adviser of 2007–2009 interim caretaker government of Bangladesh. He was appointed as Local Government and Rural Development Minister &Labour Minister of the non-party interim caretaker government of Bangladesh on 17 January 2007 and remained in that post until elections were held two years later. Later he was given the charge of the Jute &Textile Ministry. He had the responsibility to head three ministries of the government of Bangladesh. He served as the 25th Inspector General of Bangladesh police. He went into voluntary retirement from the IGP post after he had been made officer on special duty and within few days he took charge as the adviser of the caretaker government headed by Fakhruddin Ahmed during the state of emergency in Bangladesh which was declared on 11 January 2007.
A. F. M. Abdur Rahman is a retired justice of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was elevated to the High Court Division as additional judge on 27 April 2003,and was confirmed as a permanent judge on 27 April 2005 by then President of Bangladesh Iajuddin Ahmed. Rahman retired from the bench on 4 July 2018.
Md. Tafazzul Islam is a Bangladeshi who served as the 17th Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed was a Bangladeshi lawyer and constitutionalist. He was a former attorney general of Bangladesh. He served as an adviser of law to the non-party caretaker government in two successive terms.
Rafique Ul Huq was a Bangladeshi barrister who served as the Attorney General of Bangladesh in 1990.
Mahmudul Islam was a senior lawyer of Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He served as the 10th Attorney General of Bangladesh.
Syed Ali Zafar is a Pakistani senator and barrister,who was born and grew up in Lahore. He was Federal caretaker Minister for Law and Justice of Pakistan in 2018 and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan 2015–16. He remained President of the Pakistan chapter of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Law and a senior partner of Mandviwalla &Zafar,legal consultants. He is associated as vice-president of the Human Rights Society of Pakistan. He earned his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the London School of Economics in 1983,and Bar at Law from England and Wales in 1984. He is also a political analyst and regularly writes in The Express Tribune on various political,social and legal issues of Pakistan. He joined the present ruling party,Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI),in 2019.
Abu Mohammad Amin Uddin is a Bangladeshi lawyer,the 16th Attorney General of Bangladesh as well as the former President of the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Executive Committee for the term 2019-2020 and 2020–2021.
The Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association is an association of Bangladesh Supreme Court lawyers.
Obaidul Hassan is a jurist who is the 24th chief justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh He was appointed as the Chief Justice on 12 September 2023. He also served as the president of the Inquiry Committee,2022 for the formation of Bangladesh Election Commission.
Advocate Khandaker MahbubHossain was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. In 1973,he was the chief prosecutor of the court set up to try war criminals under 'Dalal' Act. Served as Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association President and Supreme Court Bar Council Vice Chairman. He was known as a criminal law expert in Bangladesh.
Md. Mozibur Rahman Miah is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. He was a judge of the International Crimes Tribunal-2,war crimes court for crimes committed during Bangladesh Liberation War.
