Abstract:
In Bangladesh, the Administrative Tribunal is a specialized adjudicating body that was
created to remove ordinary courts' jurisdiction over civil servant service disputes and
guarantee prompt, efficient, affordable, flexible, and expert adjudication. This paper
aims to investigate how complex legislation, non-adherence to the Constitutional
mandate, departure from equality principles, lack of a dynamic procedure for hiring
experts, absence of a formalized system for selecting panel advocates, various
deficiencies and inadequacies within the jurisdiction, and procedural and functional
flaws affect the adjudicating mechanism of these tribunals. This paper examines the
legal provisions of the Administrative Tribunals Act, of 1980 and the Rules framed
thereunder to determine whether they are sufficient for the proper and timely resolution
of service litigants' grievances. It does this by critically analyzing these provisions in
comparison to those of India and Pakistan in particular, as well as by empirically
scrutinizing the actual functioning of these Tribunals in Bangladesh. In summary, this
paper concludes that significant changes to those legislative requirements and
solutions to those problems are required, and it offers those solutions
