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Oct, 2020
Webinar on Proposed Bangladesh Land Act 2020 and Expert's Opinion” held at BUP
Webinar
on "Proposed Bangladesh Land Act 2020 and Expert's Opinion” held ?at BUP
Bangladesh
University of Professionals Law and Moot Court Club arranged a webinar titled
"Proposed Bangladesh Land Act 2020 and Expert's Opinion" on 03
October 2020 through online.
Barrister
M Amir-ul Islam, Senior Advocate at Supreme Court of Bangladesh and author of
the proclamation of independence of Bangladesh, Prof. Dr. Biswajit Chanda,
Member of University Grants Commission and Founding Chairman of Department of
Law and Land Administration, University of Rajshahi and Dr. Masum Billah,
Associate Professor at Jagannath University joined the webinar as panelists.
In
the panel discussion, Dr. Masum Billah critically appraised the proposed Act.
He focused on the comprehensiveness of the definitions and recommended the
drafters to be meticulous in wording. Dr. Billah also urged Law Commission to synchronize
the provisions of the proposed Act with the existing statutes in order to
eliminate the loopholes.
Prof.
Biswajit Chanda highlighted the challenges of shifting the jurisdiction of
trying land disputes from judiciary to executive branch. Dr. Biswajit uttered
the magnitude of judiciary's involvement in the settlement of land disputes.
Barrister
M. Amir-ul Islam emphasized on the proper training of the adjudicators of land
tribunals. He further recommended to design a mechanism of co-operation between
judiciary and local administration. Barrister Amir also agreed with Dr. Biswajit
that judicial officers should be appointed as the adjudicators of land
tribunals.
All
the panelists praised Bangladesh Law Commission for such an initiative to enact
a comprehensive land legislation as well as they requested the Commission to
ameliorate the proposed Act by taking necessary measures to efface the
shortcomings and loopholes.
Md.
Abu Hanif, Lecturer in Law at Bangladesh University of Professionals and
Moderator of BUPLMCC, commenced the webinar with his opening speech and Lt Col
Siraj Uddin Ahmed, psc (Retd), Chairman at Department of Law, Bangladesh
University of Professionals concluded the webinar with closing speech and vote
of thanks to the distinguished guests. The webinar was hosted by Zayed Bin
Naser, General Member at BUP Law and Moot Court Club.
Among
others, students from the Department of Law, BUP also joined the webinar.