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Conflict Between Bar and Court Continued
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The Nepal Bar Association (NBA) has boycotted the hearings at any courts throughout Nepal starting on Friday, September 19, 2008 for three days as the protest against the ruling of the full court of the Supreme Court of Nepal on September 18, 2008, to bar the President of NBA Biswokanta Mainali from advocating at any court for six months for his comment: appointment to judges is the license for corruption. The members of the NBA said that the full court had no such authority to bar any lawyer from practicing the profession; and the ruling was almost like a death sentence to the concerned lawyer. The NBA officials said that they would continue their protest if the full court did not take back the ruling.
Some justices of the Supreme Court said that it had been shameful for them even to go out after the comment of the President of BAR; so they needed to take some sorts of actions to stop such things happening in the future. However, the BAR members were determined to expose the corruption at the courts; they said that it was the people’s order to do so after the People’s Movement in April 2006.
The press has exposed a number of shameful corruption cases at various times; however, the Supreme Court has not publicly said yet what actions have been taken against such malpractices at the courts. One of the former Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Nepal had appointed his spouse to the position of his secretary according to the Nepalese press but what actions the Supreme Court had been taken against such a wrong practice had not come to the public notice.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2008, the BAR and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal sat together for reconciliation and sorted out the problems cropped up after the dispute between the Court and the BAR. They reached a four-point agreement. The Full Court of the Supreme Court of Nepal took back the suspension order given to the President of Bar,
