Implementing UNGPs to hold the industries accountable for environmental damage

The economy of Bangladesh has seen tremendous growth in the recent past that helped the country graduate from LDC to middle income country.
25 February 2022, 18:00 PM

On territorial sovereignty and its impact on neighbouring state

Among the 54 rivers shared with our neighbouring country India, the past research reveals that the Teesta river basin is seemingly the most sensitive one considering its geographic stand point.
18 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Headscarves: Liberalism, secularism and human rights regime put to question

Headscarves are garments mostly worn by Muslim women across the world as per religious obligations. But many educational institutions do not allow headscarves in the campus.
18 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Legal annotations regarding virtual company meetings during pandemic

With the pandemic, almost every type of functionary came to a standstill except the very essential ones. But as life must go on, the humankind has found ways to carry on with life.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Formation and functions of a Collective Bargaining Agent

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, family law, labor law, land law, constitutional law, criminal law, and IPR.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Importance of autopsy report in the administration of criminal justice

According to Modi’s “Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology” (12th ed.), the object of the post-mortem examination of a body is to establish its identity when not known, and to ascertain the time since death and the cause of death; natural or unnatural, homicidal, suicidal or accidental.
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Rights Watch: Against the retention of death penalty

In the past, almost all countries practised the execution of the death penalty. As much as the idea of human rights, the rule of law and democratic
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Reviewing the New Territorial Waters and Maritime Zones Act

The new Act seeks to amend the Territorial Waters and Maritime Zones Act 1974. The provisions of the 1974 Act were not coherent with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and were proposed to be amended since the UNCLOS 1982 entered into force later.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Admission limit on LLB (Hons) programme in Bangladesh universities: A call for review

Bangladesh universities, public and private, run their LLB (Hons) programme pursuant to a judicially determined and imposed admission limit of 50 students per semester.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

To harmonise environmental laws

When development initiatives cut forest, grab rivers and ponds, decrease air quality, deplete natural resources, threaten to wildlife and contaminate water of river and the Bay of Bengal etc., the efficacy of the environmental laws and policies are questioned.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Implementing the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security

In 2019, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) Bangladesh, in collaboration with the UN Women Bangladesh country office, published the National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) 2019-2022.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM

The two-page document that recognises the 1971’s genocide

At the time of its birth, Bangladesh experienced one of the worst genocides of the century, one that is yet to be duly recognised all over the globe.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Legal framework for safety on waterways

Despite that the indoor water transportation sector carries over one-fourth of the country’s total passenger traffic, it faces plenty of accidents every year.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM

A call for overhauling the probation system

Under the supervision of a probation officer, the probationers are often discharged on the conditions to perform social, and community works like planting trees, reading books, taking care of elderly parents and children, etc.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM

The Right to Repair and IP Rights in Bangladesh

Most of the corporations aim to block repair through making new devices such that they are even hard to be repaired by the third-party repairers much less the consumers.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Improving higher education in Bangladesh: A national university ranking system?

The current state of higher education in Bangladesh is at crossroads, often deemed to be falling short of expected standard of research outcomes and new knowledge creation.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Global Law Updates: The significant UN resolutions in 2021

Each year, the United Nations (UN) expresses its opinion on issues pertaining to the fulfillment of its purpose through adopting a number of resolutions.
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM

The notable Supreme Court decisions held last year

This write-up curates the notable pronouncements of the Appellate Division (AD) and the High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in 2021.
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Looking back at the laws passed in 2021

In the year of 2021, a good number of laws were amended in the National Parliament of Bangladesh in order to cope with the onslaught in connection with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM

NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY ORGANISES UNDERGRADUTE LAW SYMPOSIUM

The Department of Law, North South University in order to create co-curricular opportunities for the law students and emphasise on the importance of legal research had recently organised an Undergraduate Law Symposium Fall 2021. This event was held on the 23rd December, 2021 but the paper submission started from one month prior to the event.
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM