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 labor law, land law, banking law, constitutional law, criminal law, IPR and in conducting litigations before courts of different hierarchies.

RECENTLY on 19 January 2016, a special talk on the topic of Human Rights: The Role of Young Lawyers was held at the Department of Law,

The word 'witness' can be defined as any person, who is required to give evidence in any investigative or judicial proceedings in relation to the commission of an offence.

Separate laws should be enacted for the protection of industrial designs, utility models, PVP, cross-cutting IPRs, trade-secrets, preventing unfair competition, and integrating IP offices, and necessary amendments need be made to the existing laws.

The youth should avoid being maintainers, just for the sake, they should be at the forefront of changing the status quo and making our country a better place for all irrespective of age, ethnicity, religious or political persuasion.

The Dalits are known as the 'untouchables' in many parts of South Asia. They face discrimination at all levels of social interaction such as from...

Kashif A. Khan is the Executive Director of Insight Bangladesh Foundation, an organisation specialising on research of ICT advancement & technology modulation. Adib Shamsuddin from Law Desk talks with him on the following issues.

China passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on December 27th, 2015 that requires technology firms to help decrypt information, but not install security "backdoors" as initially planned, and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations.

Legal empowerment of the poor is seen as a pre-condition for eradication of poverty today. But are the global anti poverty programmes really bringing the needed relief to the world's poor? What is the position of urban population living in extreme poverty in this regard? Exploring the much needed answers to these questions, two renowned researchers spoke in a symposium before a concerned audience on Saturday, January 2nd 2015.

Much has been written about the alleged banking scams in HallMark Group and also about the swindling of public money in BASIC Bank. These incidents appear to be outright scams and the magnitude of the money and people involved in them are very worrying and surely they entail outright squandering of

Legislature passed seventeen Acts in 2015, some of which directly signal the progress towards achieving technological and scientific development goals as promised in the government's manifesto. Whereas in 2014, the Parliament was more inclined towards enacting laws which regulated various aspects of education and tourism, in 2015 there was an ascension in tendency of addressing emergency situations, such as, inimical use of formalin in food.

Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) of Liberation War Museum (LWM) organised its 2nd Winter School on “Genocide,

On 21 December 1965, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 2106, which established the International Convention

This has been often a common phenomenon in Bangladesh that female workers give birth at their work places like factories or mills.

In Bangladeshi parlance, the Urdu-speaking Muslim people who had migrated to the then East Pakistan from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and

We are a UK-based international charitable organisation planning to open an office in Bangladesh. However, we are receiving

No doubt, thanks are owed to Md. Rizwanul Islam for his bold observation that there are some misconceptions about the functionality

This is a common perception that only lower class people are responsible for anti-social behaviour in our country. But such a

With the passage of time, technology is becoming small but smart, intelligent, more accurate, powerful and precise. One of the reasons

It is common knowledge that authoritarian regimes (both unelected regimes and elected regimes subsequently turning into tyrannies)...