AM Amin Uddin, a senior lawyer at the Supreme Court and president of the Supreme Court Bar Association,  has been appointed the new attorney general of the country.

"President  Md Abdul Hamid has appointed Advocate AM Amin Uddin as the new attorney  general of Bangladesh. He will fill up the vacancy created after the  death of longest-serving attorney general Mahbubey Alam," Law Minister  Anisul Huq told The Daily Star yesterday.

The post of attorney general fell vacant after Attorney General Mahbubey Alam passed away on September 27.

AM  Amin Uddin, who has been appointed as the 14th top law officer of the  state, told The Daily Star yesterday that he will carry forward the work  of the government and late attorney general Mahbubey Alam to continue  establishing the rule of law and justice in the country, as well as the  independence of the judiciary.

"I will work to ensure justice for people of the country," he said.

AM  Amin Uddin was born at Kulaura in Moulavibazar in October 1963. The  eminent lawyer has completed his masters and law degrees from Dhaka  University.

He was enrolled as a lawyer for the lower court in  1987, as a High Court lawyer in 1989 and as a lawyer for the Supreme Court's Appellate Division in 2003.

He was appointed assistant attorney general  from 1996 to 2000 and as deputy attorney general in 2000. He served in  that post until the then Awami League government was in office till  October 2001. Amin Uddin was elected president of the Supreme Court Bar  Association last year and re-elected this year.

Amin Uddin, who  was elected as secretary of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 2006,  told this correspondent that there is no legal bar for serving as the  president of the SCBA while holding the office of attorney general.