The High Court has desired that the lower court judges would refrain from using names of higher degrees like ‘Dr’ and ‘Barrister’ before their names in judgements and orders delivered by them in the cases.

“Dr (Doctorate)’is a degree of researching higher education and ‘Barrister’ is a professional special course. Therefore, ‘Dr’ or ‘Barrister’ cannot be a part of name of a person,” the court has observed.

It has also said that the trend of using such degree before name takes place due to the mindset of “superiority complex.”

The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman came up with the observation in the full text of its order released on Thursday.

Earlier on July 7, the bench passed a short observation on a suo moto (voluntary) move while hearing a petition seeking its directive upon Special Judge-5 of Dhaka Akhtaruzzaman to further record statements from five witnesses in a murder case.

It came up with the order after examining that Injamamul Islam alias Zishan, an accused of the murder case, submitted the petition to the HC including an order delivered by Special Judge Akhtaruzzaman who rejected his (Injamamul) application for further recording statements from five witnesses of the case.

The HC also noticed that the special judge mentioned his name as Dr Akhtaruzzaman in the rejection order.

Judge Akhtaruzzaman on June 13 rejected the application filed by Injamamul for further recording statements from five witnesses of the case filed for killing one Hyaj Haque in Dhaka in 2014.

On July 7, the HC bench also rejected the petition of Injamamul Islam as his lawyer was not interested to move the petition.

In the full text of the order, the HC observed that a mentionable number of judges of the Appellate and HC Divisions of the Supreme Court have achieved higher educational degrees and they have experience in completing higher professional courses.

“But, the judges of the Appellate and High Court Divisions don’t mention the names of degree or course before their names and those degree and course are not mentioned in the official proceedings including Supreme Court calendar and cause-lists.

“In this situation, it is not desired and expected that the lower court judges, who already have achieved the higher degrees or completed professional higher course or will do it in future, will mention the degrees before their names in their judgements, directives and order-sheets,” it said.