Farther’s name : Late Abul Kalam Azad (advocate)
Mother’s name : Late Hosneara Begum
Date of birth : 17 December, 1962
Greatly inspired by his grandfather Late Mr. Sakhawat Ullah, a law graduate from the Presidency College and Baker Hostel, Kolkata, a pleader and the President of the greater Noakhali Bar Association, between 1972-1976 (while he was blind), Mr. Hasan has studied law and obtained LL.B. (Hons) and LL.M. from the Department of Law, Law faculty, University of Dhaka.
Being a third generation lawyer, he was enrolled as an Advocate of the District Court, the High Court Division and the Appellate division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 03 March, 1985, 17 June, 1989 and 2 July, 2004, respectively. He was a lawyer for the American Express Bank in Bangladesh for the period of 1991 to 1996. Besides, he was legal counsel to other reputed Banking, Insurance and Lease Financing Companies, Chittagong Export Processing Zones Authority, Bangladesh Krishi Bank and Bangladesh Shilpa Rin Sangstha (BSRS), which later became part of Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd (BDBL). His prolific clientele also included all the state owned oil marketing companies, namely Meghna Petrolium Ltd, Padma Oil Company Ltd, Jamuna
Oil Company Ltd and the Eastern Refinery Ltd. He was legal advisor of the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation and its enterprises, namely the TSP Complex Ltd, the Chattogram Urea Fertilizer Ltd, the Chattogram Cement Clinker Ltd and the Osmania Glass Sheet Factory Ltd, and some other state owned enterprises under the BJMC, BSEC, BSFIC, BTMC located in Chattogram Zone. He was also lawyer for the Shaw Wallace Bangladesh Ltd, Reckitt Benckiser Ltd and the Chattogram Stock Exchange Ltd. The diversity of his career was further marked by being a panel lawyer of the French Embassy, Dhaka, Chief Legal Adviser of the National Board of Revenue and lawyer for Bangladesh Biman, before his elevation as a Judge.
He was appointed as an Assistant Attorney General during the tenure of the then Caretaker Government in 2001 and was a Short Term Consultant in the World Bank, Dhaka office (2003). He has also acted as a resource person for the World Bank Group (2009) by contributing in the treatise “Investing Across Borders 2010,” published by World Bank, Group, from Austria.
He is author of the “Index of Bangladesh Laws”; 1st edition 1992, and 2nd edition in 2004, and the 3rd edition published in 2014, copies of which are preserved in the libraries of the US Congress, of the US Supreme Court, of the Harvard Law School and some other Universities in the USA. He was invited, very often, as a visiting lecturer at the Dhaka University and the Chattogram University, and in the ICAB Chattogram region, to give lectures on the corporate and business law.
He has attended a conference on the ‘Corporate Governance’, held at Manila (2017), organized by the ADB, and was a keynote speaker in a seminar on the ‘Legal regime and Practice of Commercial Law in Bangladesh,’ jointly organized by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and the UNDP(2019). He has attended the international conference on the “Displacement Justice: Global Challenges, Issues and Strategies”, held at Siliguri, India. (2024) and in a number of other national and international seminars and webinars.
He has contributed many articles on legal, social, human rights and economic issues in the journal section of the law reporters (since 1990 DLR, Journal Section, page 54) and in the reputed English and Bangla Dailies and Weeklies and in the Supreme Court Annual reports, in the journals of the Judicial Training Institute (JATI) etc.
Recently, Rapid Action Battalion has featured his write-up on human rights in their special magazine published on the eve of 20th RAB Raising Day. His article ‘The Relevance of Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ was published on 11th December, 2023 in the ‘Law & Our Rights’ page of the country’s premier newspaper The Daily Star.
