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.

About four years have passed since the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court decided in favour of restoring the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) as laid out in Article 96 of the Constitution through the verdict of the 16th Amendment case.

International trade largely depends upon the shipping industry. Around ninety percent of traded goods are transported around the world through sea.

The tourism sector of Bangladesh is growing but is yet to reach its full potential. To improve the scenario, the Parliament of Bangladesh has enacted the

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is a well-established procedure in the civil adjudication system, but it has not been widely introduced in the criminal

Australia and Bangladesh have concluded the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) on 15 September 2021 to boost their trade and

In our legal system, the death sentence is awarded to those who commit the most heinous crimes.

The pandemic has opened our eyes to the actual condition of human rights in Bangladesh. Occasionally the images of human rights protection seemed positive in the pre-Covid-19 context; however, the pandemic-induced lockdown exacerbated the human rights condition of the country, particularly with regard to rights of women and children.

Businesses are constantly complaining against the anti-competitive behaviours of the e-commerce platforms. The accusations against them are quite templatic: deep-discounting, self-preferencing, manipulation in search ranking, misuse of consumer data.

Bangladesh’s independence is among the few examples of successful remedial secessions in the narratives of state succession.

A group of law students from the Bangladesh Army International University of Science & Technology (BAIUST) have recently visited one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.

A prospectus is a document that gives details of a company’s activities and aims to persuade the public to invest in their company.

In a landmark judgment in Anis Miah v State, Criminal Appeal No. 6799 of 2011, a full bench of the High Court Division (HCD) deliberated on the “legal implication of confession made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure [CrPC] by a child in conflict with law”. 

Nina Goswami (NG): In the past years, the government has appeared proactive as a response to many incidents of violence and mass reactions to the same.

Eastern University Mooting Team has qualified for the international rounds of the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court

Various scholars, anti-corruption researchers and international organisations define corruption in many ways. Transparency International (TI), a non-governmental anti-corruption organisation, defines corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.

All the companies registered in Bangladesh are bound to keep a ‘register of members’ from the date of the registration. Such register shall be kept at the registered office of the company and allowed for inspection by the members free of cost during business hours.

The judicial use of international laws, judgments in formal adjudicative courts is being seen and recognised around the world to an increasing extent.

As a riverine country, Bangladesh has a long history of shipbuilding. Chattogram which is known as the port city of Bangladesh, has been involved in building of ships since the Mughal empire and with the flow of time, the tradition continues.

Imagine a human rights violation that suffers impunity inside the country, but that can be held accountable by an international body of some sort. Examples could be custodial torture, or enforced disappearances, or extra-judicial killings – all of which have abysmal track records of getting justice at Bangladesh’s courts.