March 28, 2007

The Supreme Court and its divisions

The highest court of law in Bangladesh is known as the Supreme Court, comprising the High Court division and the Appellate division. For reasons unknown, the Supreme Court building in Dhaka has always popularly been referred to as the High Court building, which should be written the Supreme Court building. The newspapers also, still for reasons unknown, write 'the High Court,' but 'the Appellate division of the Supreme Court,' and they also mean the Appellate division when they write the Supreme Court, as opposed to the High Court. If 'the High Court' works fine, 'the Appellate' should also do well. If the phrase 'the High Court' is the order, the phrase 'the Appellate division of the Supreme Court' is over-identification; and the other way round, 'the High Court' would be under-identification, if the 'the Appellate division of the Supreme Court' is the order. The newspapers are also less willing to write the word 'division' after 'the High Court,' but write 'the Appellate division' almost all the time .

In a report that was published in the business section of the newspaper, a story said the 'Supreme Court division of the Appellate division.' It was definitely a mistake on the part of the editor, but when the reporter was asked about it the next day, he replied he had seen it being so printed in other reports.

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