The Claims Commissioners provided a quasi judicial feature to ensure due process was following in the establishment and delivery of the Arrangement. The Commissioners were responsible for determining the amount of compensation to be awarded to each claimant within the framework agreed upon by the Coordination Committee. They oversaw and certify the correctness and independence of the claims processing and the work of the claims review team.
Their work included making decisions on particular aspects of the process that needed to be in line with local law (for example the definition of dependents for the purposes of the claim), liaising with government and local officials and recommending and arranging service providers for different elements of the scheme. The Commissioners were also responsible for dealing with unusual or difficult cases where the circumstances of a particular claimant of beneficiaries fell outside of the normal parameters of the scheme.
The Rana Plaza Coordination appointed one international and two national Commissioners, all of whom were highly respected lawyers with significant experience and expertise in international and national law.
Mojtaba Kazazi is currently a practitioner in international law and an independent arbitrator in Geneva. He is a former judge of the high courts of Tehran, and has over 30 years of experience in international dispute resolution and claims proceedings, including negotiations, mass claims processing, and international arbitration.
He served as the Executive Head of the United Nations Compensation Commission (2007- December 2012), and as Secretary of the UNCC Governing Council with Security Council membership (1997-2007). He was instrumental in the setting up and functioning of the Compensation Commission as a subsidiary organ of the Security Council, and the resolution and payment of over 2.7 million claims (for a total claimed value of over USD 350 billion), filed through approximately 100 Governments.
Sultana Kamal is a respected lawyer, and a long-standing human rights and women’s rights activist. Alongside her current role as the Executive Director of Ain-o-Salish Kendra (ASK) she chairs Transparency International Bangladesh and co-chairs the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission. She also sits as a trustee of Freedom Foundation, Protichi Bangladesh, Rokeya and the Memorial Foundation and is a member of Bangladesh UNESCO National Commission, The National Legal Aid Committee, The Blue Planet Initiative, the Asia Pacific Forum for Women Law and Development (Regional Network), Women Living Under Muslim Laws (International Network), South Asians For Human Rights and South Asian Partnership among many others.
Sultana has regularly published articles in daily newspapers and periodicals on social, legal and gender issues, has lectured at various universities, including the University of Toronto and Oxford University, and has travelled to over thirty countries to address issues relating to human and womens' rights. She is also one of only four women awarded the the CNC's Special Commendation for her role in the war of liberation and has been awarded the Ananya Top Ten Award (1995) and the Canadian John Humphrey Freedom Award (1996) for her involvement in human rights and women's rights activities.
Justice Haque is the former Chief Justice of Bangladesh and current Chairman of the Law Commission. Justice Khairul Haque received his LL.B from the University of Dhaka (1969) and became Barrister at Law at the Hon’ble Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London (1975). He was enrolled as an Advocate of East Pakistan Bar Council, Dhaka (1970), as an Advocate of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (1976) and as an Advocate of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh (1982).
Justice Khairul Haque was appointed as an Additional Judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in April, 1998 and confirmed in April, 2000. He was elevated as a Judge of the Appellate Division (Highest Court in Bangladesh) on 16th July, 2009. He was appointed as the Chief Justice of Bangladesh on 30th September, 2010