Online freedom of expression under threat?

The Digital Security Act (DSA) 2018 aims to ensure digital security by punishing offences committed through digital media.
1 October 2018

Barrister Rashna Imam recognised as Asia 21 Young Leader 2018

Barrister Rashna Imam, advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Managing Partner of Akhtar Imam & Associate, has been chosen as Asia 21 Young Leader of 2018, from Bangladesh.
29 September 2018

BLAST holds seminar on definition of rape and understanding of consent

On 8 September 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted an expert consultation seminar titled ‘Rethinking the Definition of Rape and Our Understanding of Consent’ in the BILIA Auditorium.
26 September 2018

Analysing the draft Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act 2018

The draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 aims to make labour law worker-friendly while regulating the conduct of workers and owners in compliance with the standards of International Labour Organization (ILO).
24 September 2018

Revisiting the majority opinion in the 16th amendment case

While writing the majority opinion in the Government of Bangladesh and Others v Advocate Asaduzzaman Sidddiqui and Others (2017) CLR (Spl) 1 [hereinafter 'the 16th Amendment Case'],
24 September 2018

Conference on 'Law, Justice and Society' held at DU

The Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka organised the '1st Senior Advocate Ozair Farooq Memorial Law Conference 2018' on September 16-17, 2018.
24 September 2018

Genocide in Rakhine

The Liberation War Museum’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) has found that the Rohingya people have been the victims of genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In its recent empirical study conducted among the Rohingya people who fled the violence and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar after the 25th of August 2017, the CSGJ research team found credible evidences of genocide under international criminal law.
24 September 2018

DUMCS hosts 8th Inter Year Moot Court Competition 2018

The pioneer organisation in mooting in Bangladesh, the Dhaka University Moot Court Society (DUMCS), organised its signature annual event, the 8th Inter Year Moot Court Competition from September 14-18, 2018.
24 September 2018

Ensuring rights of the Harijan community

GOD has created us as equal but we the human beings have differentiated ourselves in many division, sub-division and so on.
17 September 2018

US accused of failing to protect citizens

American gun violence is “a human rights crisis” and the US government's refusal to pass gun control laws represents a violation of its
17 September 2018

Your Advocate

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a
17 September 2018

ICC and Myanmar: Impunity ended or extended?

The recent decision of the International Criminal Court's Pre-Trial Chamber recognising the Court's jurisdiction over Myanmar's alleged crimes against humanity has been hailed as breaking new ground in the Rohingya crisis and in the pursuit of international criminal justice more broadly.
17 September 2018

Judicial Conference 2018 Held at Noakhali

‘The expectations of the mass people regarding the competency of the judges is very high. Therefore, a judge has to be punctual, disciplined, wise in the verses of law and an ideal person with dignified and sophisticated behavior with the people of his territory’
13 September 2018

Workshop on legal research & writing held at CU

Considering the necessity of understanding legal research and writing for young law students, NILS Mooting School organised an intensive day-long workshop on Legal Research and Writing on September 7, 2018 at Institute of Fine Arts, University of Chittagong for 50 selected participants from different law schools.
10 September 2018

Decriminalisation of consensual adult same-sex intimacy

A five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court (SC) has scrapped section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) unanimously in four
10 September 2018

ICC's jurisdiction & response of Myanmar

On September 06, 2018, the International Criminal Court (ICC), composed of three judges, decided by a majority that it has jurisdiction to investigate officials of the Myanmar Government for committing acts of violence towards the Rohingya minority.
10 September 2018

ELCOP brings glory to the nation

Dhaka based Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP) has received the “South Asian Excellence in Legal Education
10 September 2018

Discretionary power: is it conceit or necessity?

In Bangladesh, the judges decide cases using their discretionary power imposed by the statutes. The laws of Bangladesh have
10 September 2018

The possibility of Jute as GI product

Article 22.1 of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) defines Geographical Indications as
3 September 2018

UN finds genocide in Rakhine

The UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar was set up in March 2017 to investigate widespread allegations
3 September 2018