The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has fixed August 13 for holding the elections of Bangladesh Bar Council.
Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha-led four-member bench set the date on Thursday.
The SC also ordered the Bar Council chairman, attorney general and Bar Council secretary to publish the updated voter list by July 12.
On May 21, the HC froze the polls of the lawyer regulatory body for three months. It was scheduled to take place on May 27.
On that day following the HC order, Bar Council Secretary Altaf Hossain and candidates AJ Mohammad Ali, AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon and Bodruddoza Badal had moved two appeals with the SC against the HC order.
On May 24, an aspirant of executive member of the bar council Rokanuddin Mahmud also filed an appeal seeking apex court order on the authorities concerned to hold the election after correcting the voter list.
The HC had frozen the polls on May 21 after two writ petitions filed by a lawyer Eunus Ali Akond mentioning flaws in voter list.
The HC had also asked the government and Bar Council authorities to explain by four weeks why the polls schedule should not be declared illegal.
It also issued rule to explain as to why the amendment of Bar Council Act 2003, which limited a member to cast 14 votes, should not be declared illegal.
