The country’s top court restored a military rule-era provision which allows only a Supreme Judicial Council, led by the chief justice, to remove judges found to have breached the judicial code of conduct.
The full ruling released on Tuesday was quickly hailed by lawyers as a crucial safeguard for the freedom of the Moslem-majority nation’s secular judiciary. "The judgement declares the 16th amendment of the constitution as null and void. It means the highest court scraps the parliament’s power to remove top judges," said senior lawyer Syed Ahsanul Karim.
Karim said that because of the "landmark" judgement, the executive "will have no dominant role over the judiciary".
Karim said if the amendment had been left in place, it would have made top judges "subservient" to the government as they would have been under constant threat of removal.
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...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
brought the constitutional change allowing parliament -- controlled by her ruling Awami League party -- to remove top judges in September 2014.