Faisal Mahmud Faizee

Faisal Mahmud Faizee is a former Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court. He resigned from the court over allegations of having improperly received his law degree.

Career On 31 October 2004, Faizee was withdrawn from the High Court Division by Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain after newspaper reports emerged questioning his law degree. His father sued Bhorer Kagoj and Prothom Alo on contempt of court charges and won.

On 24 April 2005, the Bangladesh Bar Council cancelled the enrolment certificate of Faizee due to his recorded birth date not matching the birth date on his birth certificate. The decision was taken following a meeting of the council led by Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud.

On 15 December 2006, Faizee sentenced former president of Bangladesh, Hussain Mohammad Ershad to two years imprisonment in a corruption case related to the purchase of 520 boats from Japan for relief operations after the 1989 Bangladesh floods.

In 2007, the Supreme Judicial Council was created to investigate the charges against Faizee. The University of Chittagong had cancelled his law degree and those of few others after it found evidence of tampering grade sheets in March. He resigned on 12 July 2007, before conclusion of the investigation.