98
Principles,
specially
Commonwealth
(Latimer
House)
Principles on the three Branches of Government; The
Universal Charter of the Judges; UN Basic Principles
on the Independence of Judiciary, International Bar
Association
Conducts;
(IBA)
Beijing
Minimum
Standards
Statement
of
of
Judicial
Principles
of
the
Independence of the Judiciary in the LAWASIA Region;
the International Principles on the Independence and
Accountability of Judges, Lawyers and Prosecutors’.
Mr. T.H. Khan, Mr. M. Amirul Islam, Mr. M.I.
Farooqui, Dr. Kamal Hossain, Mr. Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan,
Mr. A.F. Hassan Ariff, Mr. Rokanuddin Mahmud, Mr.
Fida M. Kamal and Mr. A.J. Muhammad Ali supported the
judgment of the High Court Division declaring the
Sixteenth
Amendment
constitution
and
they
illegal,
have
ultra
also
vires
submitted
the
written
arguments.
According
Amendment
case
to
them
approved
the
and
judgment
upheld
the
the
Fifth
Supreme
Judicial Council mechanism for removal of the Judges
of the higher judiciary; that the impugned amendment
is unconstitutional; that this amendment curtailed