International solidarity is required to ensure safe, dignified and voluntary repatriation of Rohingyas

Brian Barbour is a lawyer with a background in International Refugee Law.
8 July 2019

Book Review: Nuclear energy regulation and the environment

The very timely written book of Professor Abdullah Al Faruque on nuclear power titled Nuclear Energy Regulation, Risk and the Environment, published in 2018 by Routledge, makes an important contribution in the field of nuclear energy law which is still
1 July 2019

Legal remedy for email hacks

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a renowned law firm, namely, ‘Legal Counsel’, which has expertise mainly in commercial law, corporate law, family law, employment and
1 July 2019

New ILO Convention aims to protect workers from violence and harassment

Following the global #metoo movement, the International Labour Conference has adopted the Convention Concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work 2019 at its 108th session in Geneva.
1 July 2019

Innocence Project in the pitfall of criminal justice system

The New York based Innocence Project is a legal attempt that is committed to exonerate wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reform the criminal justice system for preventing future injustice. The standard that must be met by the
1 July 2019

20th June: The World Refugee Day

The World Refugee Day is observed every year on 20th June, dedicated to raising awareness about the plights of the millions of refugees and displaced people around the world.
17 June 2019

Rethinking investor state dispute settlement mechanisms

Investor State dispute settlement (ISDS) is the mechanism of settling investment disputes transpired between host States (States where investments are made by foreign investors) and investors by ad hoc investment tribunals.
17 June 2019

The role of civil justice in achieving SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force by a historic UN Summit with a view to mobilising efforts to end all forms of poverty, inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
17 June 2019

On the controversial extradition bill of Hong Kong

The whole of Hong Kong is shaken by the thousands of protesters who have blocked the streets to raise their voice against the recent controversial extradition bill of the country.
17 June 2019

Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams

The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.
10 June 2019

The importance of forensic evidence in our justice system

With the advent of time, the commission of crimes is becoming more sophisticated, critical, digital and organised. The pattern of committing crimes is changing with the changes of science and technology.
10 June 2019

Our right to easy access to information

Information is prerequisite for humans to perform several activities.
10 June 2019

Dealing with deadlock in mediation

Meditation is one of the fair modes of settlement of disputes pending among the contesting parties. It is a voluntary, party-controlled and structured negotiation mechanism where a ‘neutral third party’ assists the disputant parties in resolving their conflicts amicably.
10 June 2019

Landmark environmental law verdicts

While our higher judiciary has no original jurisdiction on environment matters, its writ jurisdiction has been frequently invoked in the
3 June 2019

An Overview of Environmental Laws of Bangladesh

With the imminent threat of climate change on one hand and the everyday cost of deteriorating habitability on the other, Bangladesh is
3 June 2019

Determining the extent of right to safe environment

From the perspective of judicial enforcement, environmental rights can be divided into two kinds - substantive and procedural. A
3 June 2019

On Hindu women’s right to property

According to classical Hindu law, all daughters of a man are not equally eligible to inherit. Unmarried daughters and married daughters with sons can inherit, while childless widowed daughters or daughters having no son or with no possibility of having sons are excluded.
27 May 2019

Legal protection of intellectual creations

I study computer science and engineering in DUET. I am in the final year of my bachelors. Last semester of the final year, I designed a robot which can speak in four different languages (Bangla, English, French and Spanish) through automation. The unique feature of this robot is that
27 May 2019

Allahabad High Court decides on marital rape

Allahabad High Court, India has held that forcible sex, be it unnatural or natural, is an illegal intrusion into the privacy of the wife and amounts to cruelty against her. The division bench comprising of Justice Shashi Kant Gupta and Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava upheld a District Court order
27 May 2019

Our ‘Problematic’ Law Making Process

Legislative process in our parliament is claimed to be an upshot of the Westminster parliament. Like the Westminster, here government businesses are prioritised over private member initiatives for law making. However, unlike the Westminster, opposition and backbencher voices in Bangladesh
27 May 2019