Md. Rezaul Hasan

Hasan was born on 17 December 1962.[4] He completed his bachelor's degree and master's degree in law from the University of Dhaka.[4]

Justice Hasan became a lawyer of the district court on 3 March 1985.[4]

Hasan was also lecturer at law faculty of Chittagong University for a brief period of time.

On 17 June 1989, Hasan became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.[4]

Hasan became a lawyer of the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 21 July 2004.[4]

Hasan was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh in 2009. He was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division on 6 June 2011.[4][5]

Hasan was a short term consultant at the World Bank, Dhaka Office, in 2003. He has contributed an essay in the treatise ‘Investment Across the Borders’, published by IMF from the Vienna, 2010.

His book ‘M. R. Hasan’s Index of Bangladesh Laws’ has been widely accepted by the legal community in Bangladesh and copies of this book is preserve in the libraries of the US Supreme Court, US Congress, Harvard Law School, Cornell University, Yale University, Columbia University Law School, Princeton University, University of Chicago etc.

Justice Hasan was the ‘keynote speaker’, in a seminar, on commercial law, jointly organised by the SCB and the UNDP, in Dhaka, in July 2018. In this seminar he has successfully advocated to reduce the bank interest rate to a single digit.

Justice Hasan was ‘keynote speaker’ in a webinar on the ‘Development Plans of Bangabandhu and the Present Day Realities’ organised by Dhaka WASA from California,on 14 August 2021, in commemoration of the Father of the Nation. Hasan's article ‘The Liberation War 1971: It’s Legitimacy Under the International Law’, written as a tribute to the birth centenary of the Father of the Nation and published in a Special Magazine of the RAB and other reputed Journals in 2020, has brought forth new insights about the war of liberation of Bangladesh.

BSEC has amended it's Listing Registrations in 2014 as per direction given in his judgment that requires the listed companies to hold AGM in the cities of their registered offices. It has helped transparency in the capital markets. His judgment in writ petition number, directing that no school teacher shall be kept under suspension for more than two months has reduced victimisation of teachers to almost nil, since the Ministry of Education has published a circular about compliance with the said direction.

Justice Hasan's judgment on a gang rape case,given in Criminal Appeal number, has been published in the leading law journals as well as in the ‘Leading Cases of India Pakistan and Bangladesh’ in 2017.

Remarkably In an interview with the weekly ‘Sangbad Chitra’ published from Dkaka in August,1992,Hasan opined that the Indemnity Ordinance 1975 was ultra vires the Constitutiona and Parliament can't ratify such an Ordinance. He also asserted that the murderers of Bangabandhu should be brought to justice. He has been contributing articles in the leading English and Vernacular journals and news papers since 1990.

Hasan vacated the board of directors of Pubali Bank on 26 February 2014 as the directors did not own the minimum required shares of the bank.[6]

On 5 August 2016, Hasan and Justice Kashefa Hussain ordered Chittagong Development Authority, Chattogram City Corporation, and the Department of Environment to protect Munshi Pukur in Chittagong.[7] On 16 August 2016, Hasan and Justice Kashefa Hussain ordered the removal of 2,181 illegal structures from the banks of Karnaphuli River.[8]