Assessing compensation in road accident cases

In Bangladesh, everyday serious accidents occur due to rough, speedy and reckless driving of bus and truck drivers.
6 August 2018

Has the Bankruptcy Act, 1997 lived up to its expectation?

In ancient Roman society, bankrupt/insolvent persons were considered as criminals and with sovereign assent they were cut into pieces and threw away in the sea, their wives and children used to be sold as slaves.
6 August 2018

National Justice Audit launching event held at BICC

On 29 July, at Bangabandhu International Convention Center, National Justice Audit Bangladesh Launching Event took place.
31 July 2018

Anti-dumping duties on Jute

Though Bangladesh has many success stories in international trade market, nevertheless huge negative trade balance is still a matter of great concern.
30 July 2018

Legal remedies for professional negligence of lawyers

Seeking remedies for professional negligence is a relatively less explored area in Bangladesh.
30 July 2018

War crimes probe against Israel

On 25 July, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), appointed a three-member legal panel to conduct a war crimes probe into alleged Israeli human rights violation on the Gaza border that began on March 30.
30 July 2018

ASSESSING TORT CLAIMS: Relevance of Catherine Masud case

Underdeveloped tort law has been a growing concern for the legal system of Bangladesh for many years.
30 July 2018

Trafficking of children and young people

The World Day against Trafficking in Persons is an annual event held on July 30th of every year.
23 July 2018

Medical negligence and duty of care

With the front pages of newspapers increasingly reporting incidents of deaths and injuries arising out of road traffic and workplace accidents, dialogues on the urgent need for a dynamic tort regime have taken centre-stage.
23 July 2018

Anti-Generic Learning and Rebellious Lawyering

The Book Launching Ceremony of 'Anti- Generic Learning and Rebellious Lawyering: Reflections on Legal Education in Bangladesh',
23 July 2018

Innocent until proven guilty

Afew days back while reading the book “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari, I stumbled upon an information which seems harmless in plain sight but in fact is quite gargantuan in the consequence it ensues.
23 July 2018

'Legal Stories of Life': Celebration of Your Advocate

The book 'Legal Stories of Life' is a compilation of Barrister Omar H. Khan's write-ups published in The Daily Star's popular 'Your
16 July 2018

Eastern University hosts Moot Competition

An International Environmental Law Moot Court Competition 2018 was held in Eastern University from 12th to 14th July 2018. The
16 July 2018

To ensure right to safe food

Recently in a research, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) has found that 75% of pasteurised
16 July 2018

Consumer protection and medical services

The purpose of consumer protection legislation and policy is to create a known, accessible, and speedy system of redress and
16 July 2018

Family planning is a human right

This year, World Population Day (11 July) marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 International Conference on Human Rights, where family planning was, for the first time, globally affirmed to be a human right.
9 July 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 renowned law firm,
9 July 2018

Protecting privacy in biometric data

Nowadays biometric technology is increasingly used for a wide range of activities ranging from identity authentication to border security, voting system, health care, education and so on.
9 July 2018

Legality of bitcoin in Bangladesh

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency invented in 2009 by a software developer allegedly named Satoshi Nakamoto with a goal to create “a new electronic cash system” that was “completely decentralised with no server or central authority.
9 July 2018

National conference organised by BLAST

A national conference organised by Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), and Christian Aid, echoed the stories of gender violence in the legal profession.
7 July 2018