The inhumanity and savagery by rape and sexual offences are on the peak now. Almost every day newspapers are pouring with the horrifying news of rape, gang rape of children and women.

A rights organisation today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive to restrain the media from publishing and broadcasting the identity of rape victims.

I am a small businessman carrying out business as a sole proprietor with a trade license. I am considering forming a limited company. Recently I have come across that a law has been passed in Bangladesh that allows one person companies. I would like to know more about one person companies and how they may be beneficial in comparison with sole proprietorship so that I can take an informed decision.

Bangladesh follows a 150-year-old definition of rape given in the Penal Code, 1860, which happens to be a colonial holdover.

Law Desk (LD): How do you evaluate the recent judgment of the High Court Division declaring that women cannot act as Nikah Registrars?

A court in Khulna today sentenced five people to life term imprisonment in an explosives case filed in connection with the murder of local journalist Humayun Kabir Balu in 2004.

Criminal Investigation Department has submitted a supplementary charge sheet in the Maj Gen Abul Manzur murder case where they found nothing new in the further investigation for the last seven years.

The High Court today directed the Nari O Shishu Nirjaton Daman Tribunal of Chandpur to send a 17-year-old girl and her two-and-a-half-month-old daughter from a safe home in Tongi to her husband Kamal Uddin.

A 2020 report by Bangladesh Institute on Labour Studies shows that 729 workers suffered from workplace death of which 384 were employed in the transport sector, 84 in construction sector and 67 in agriculture.

Lectures on Company Law by Mohammad Towhidul Islam, PhD is the amalgamation of his lecture notes which he had prepared in the course of his teaching the subject during the early years of his career.

Kawser Ahmed (KA): If you check the 2nd Cycle UPR report of Bangladesh, you will find that death penalty was reported to have been restricted to most serious and heinous crimes.

This write-up compiles notable pronouncements of the Appellate Division (AD) and the High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court (SC) of Bangladesh from 2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges across all aspects of public and private life all over the world, including Bangladesh.

The Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh went into session for a total of 10 times in 2020; only 4 of them since the COVID-19 outbreak.

"The Parliament sat for 4 sessions since the COVID-19 outbreak and a total of 10 sessions in 2020. Despite the limitations, a significant number of laws and amendments were passed. A total of 27 Acts were passed, of which 8 were amendments. This infographic highlights some of the significant laws passed in 2020."

A ustria’s constitutional court has struck down a law prohibiting primary school children from wearing specific head coverings having religious significance.

Laws are meant to regulate the behavior of human beings with the conformity of equality, equity, fairness and justice.

Internal relocation alternative is one of the doctrines recently developed to determine refugee or asylum seeker status in a host country. It basically examines whether the asylum seeker has exhausted all his opportunities of relocation in his country of origin during status seeking.

Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech is the only company, globally, to be listed with three vaccine candidates – DNA plasmid vaccine, Adenovirus Type 5 Vector and D614G variant LNP-encapsulated mRNA and other companies have one or two varieties.

The Bangladesh Chapter of the Network for International Law Students (NILS) with the event support of Liberation War Museum organised the 2nd International Law Fest 2020 from 17 to 19 December 2020.