Better late than never

Environmentalist must have been happy to see the news of ban imposed on Shela river route published in The Daily Star on March 22, 2016. The decision
28 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Equality for women

Gender equality is a procedure for sharing out resources, programmes and decision makings in a way that ensures equal distribution of the resources,
28 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Netrakona suicide blasts: SC upholds death for JMB man

SC upheld death penalty of JMB activist Asaduzzaman Chowdhury alias Panir for killing 8 people by carrying out suicide bomb attacks at Udichi and Shata Dal Shilpi Goshthi offices in Netrakona in 2005.
23 March 2016, 12:48 PM

Election buzz at the Court

The Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association election is here again. It is scheduled to take place on the 23rd and 24th of March 2016. The corridors of the
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Guide to find and read law reports

Reading through topical case laws is a must for all law students. This is not only confined within knowing about celebrated age-old judicial decisions, but also extends to get oneself be acquainted with newly held decisions of both home and abroad.
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Bowling out the ban

Cricket lovers from all over Bangladesh have been left in shock and utter disbelief by the suspension of the Bangladeshi bowlers Taskin Ahmed and Arafat
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Enforcement of ADR without force

In legal parlance, when do we term the legislature utopian? It is obviously at that time, when they expect proper compliance of any legal provision without
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Violence against younger people

Bangladesh is one of the earliest signatories of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the government adopted a draft policy for child
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Ban on sale of tobacco to youth

In 2003 the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). In the preamble of the Convention, deep concern is expressed regarding “the escalation in smoking and other forms of tobacco consumption by children and adolescents worldwide, particularly smoking at increasingly early ages”. The Convention aims to control tobacco by providing demand and supply reduction provisions including ban on sales to and by minors as a supply reduction measure.
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Terrorism as organised crime

Given the rising crisis of transnational organised crime globally, the concept of terrorism becomes very topical. The Parisian and other incidents remind us
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Urge to amend Consumer Rights Protection Act

In 1985, United Nations provides a guideline to protect consumer right for its member nations. After the long 23 years of such guideline, finally in 2009 the Government of Bangladesh enacted consumer right protection law. But it is the matter of regret, this law itself is not much consumer oriented.
14 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Speeches and messages

“We have shattered so many glass ceilings we created a carpet of shards. Now we are sweeping away the assumptions and bias of the past so women can advance across new frontiers,” says UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his message for International Women's Day 2016.
7 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Gender Equality in Bangladeshi politics

In the concealment of the fact that women are in leadership positions in the central politics of Bangladesh, a critical feminist issue gets neglected: to what
7 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Women's rights: Not a battle among genders

In some areas Bangladesh is actually surpassing other SAARC Nations; in relation to a number of indicators of gender equality. For example, in many areas like girls' enrolment in primary and secondary schools, maternal mortality figures or women's entry into the work place, Bangladesh has excelled above many of its SAARC neighbours.
7 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Sedition law in Bangladesh

The Penal Code, 1860 in its section 124A defines the offence of sedition. According to this section, anyone who by spoken or written words, or by signs, or
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Barrister: To be or not to be!

Abarrister ( barrister-at-law or Bar-at-law) is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions with a split legal profession. In England and other Common law
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM

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, 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.
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Values-based child protection system

Law, ethics, values and morality forms an integral part of the society. Law is omnipresent whereas ethics, values and morality are the inner instinct. Their blend is a requirement for the amicable survival of the society especially for the protection of the children. In Bangladesh a large number of children are deprived of their basic human rights due to unacceptable health, nutrition and education as well as social conditions. In addition, recently children are facing violence in a range of settings including at home and in the family, in schools and in care and justice systems, in workplaces and in the communities.
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Mahmudul Islam: A banyan tree of wisdom

Mahmudul Islam, not only a famous lawyer but also an eminent personality in our judiciary who passed away at the age of 79 on 16
22 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Safe migration: Preventing human trafficking

On 18th and 17th February, more than 70 entrepreneurs of Union Digital Centers (UDC) in Sirajganj and Joypurhat districts received day
22 February 2016, 18:00 PM