The InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance ensuring flexibility and stability required for the investment environment.110 Perhaps, due to this economic argument in support of access to justice as a concept, rather than a rightbased approach to access to justice, we have observed a renewed emphasis on access to justice, but mostly in civil matters. While the government is adding more weight to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms in the form of legislation, training, and so on, criminal cases are still stuck in century old criminal procedure. Although the Speedy Trial Act was passed in 2004 to address the delay in criminal cases, the Tribunals constituted under this Act were designed to hear only a limited number of cases, selected on the basis of the ‘sensational’ nature of the crimes in question. This raised a vital question regarding the constitutionality of the Act. From the outset, the Act was given a limited life; in February 2012, the Parliament passed a bill to keep the Act in force for another two years, until April 2014. Regarding legal aid, pursuant to the Legal Aid Services Act of 2000, a National Legal Aid Services Board has been 112 Section 6 of the Act. Section 7 of the Act. 114 S Muralidhar, Law, Poverty and Legal Aid. Access to Criminal Justice (New Delhi: Lexis Nexis Butterworth, 2004), 359. 115 Khair, Legal Empowerment for the Poor, 225. 113 89