Delawar Hossain Sayedee
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Monday recommended action against three British lawyers for requesting its chairman to abstain from the trial of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee on war crimes charges.
Steven Kay QC, Toby Cadman and John Kammegh, from a law chamber of London, on November 8 introduced themselves as counsels for Sayedee and sent an email to the ICT chairman by name for his recusal (voluntary abstention from trial proceedings), the tribunal said.
Two-judge tribunal directed the officials concerned to send the order along with a copy of the email to the Bar Standards Board in London for necessary action against the three.
Justice ATM Fazle Kabir and Justice AKM Zaheer Ahmed said in the order that the main intention of the lawyers were to humiliate a judge (Justice Nizamul Huq) of the Supreme Court of an independent sovereign country.
They said the British lawyers have violated the provision of 709.1 of the code of conduct of the Bar of England and Wales.
The judges said they have been informed that the email had been forwarded to the national print media in Bangladesh and the daily Sangram published the contents of the letter on November 10.
They on Monday asked Delawar Hossain Sayedee, who was produced before the tribunal, whether the British lawyers were representing him.
Sayedee told the tribunal that he engaged them for assisting his national lawyers.
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