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BLAST holds seminar on compensation for the violations of fundamental rights
On October 10, 2018 Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted a seminar titled ‘Compensation as a Constitutional Remedy for Violations of Fundamental Rights’ as part of its Law in Practice Seminar Series at the BILIA auditorium.
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'Good guy versus bad girl' syndrome
In Bangladesh, the standard of proof in prosecution of crimes is beyond-every-reasonable-doubt. And any contradiction(s) within the entire fabric of the case can weaken the prosecution by casting doubt on the story propounded thereby.
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Recognition to anti-rape activism
The Norwegian Nobel committee said that Denis Mukwege, a doctor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, and Nadia Murad, a 25-year-old Yazidi activist, had been awarded the prize “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.
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Women's workplace in legal profession
The Constitution of Bangladesh envisages work as a right, assures the equality of opportunity and pledges to ensure participation of women in all spheres of public life.
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US must allow humanitarian trade with Iran
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 3 October 2018 ordered the United States to remove any restrictions on the export of humanitarian goods and services to Iran after it challenged new US sanctions in July.
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Workshop on PIL organised by ASK
Ain o Salish Kendro (ASK) organised a two-day workshop on Public Interest Litigation (PIL) from 5th October to 6th October, 2018was at Shohagpolli, Gazipur. The workshop was participated by diverse law professionals and NGO representatives as well as lawyers from different places of Bangladesh.
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Compensation under the new Road Transport Act: A critique
The recently approved Road Transport Act 2018 has long been in the works but was accelerated for enactment by the Bangladesh Parliament in response to the groundbreaking student protests for road safety in August 2018. The Preamble to the 2018 Act states that it is being passed with a view to replacing the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983 keeping provisions largely unchanged save where change was necessary to modernise the law and satisfy the demands of the day.
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International day on non-violence
2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence, marks the International Day of Non-violence.
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Online freedom of expression under threat?
The Digital Security Act (DSA) 2018 aims to ensure digital security by punishing offences committed through digital media.
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'Adultery' decriminalised in India
Recently, the Supreme Court of India has become very enthusiastic to declare the archaic Victorian value influenced laws unconstitutional.
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Barrister Rashna Imam recognised as Asia 21 Young Leader 2018
Barrister Rashna Imam, advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Managing Partner of Akhtar Imam & Associate, has been chosen as Asia 21 Young Leader of 2018, from Bangladesh.
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BLAST holds seminar on definition of rape and understanding of consent
On 8 September 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted an expert consultation seminar titled ‘Rethinking the Definition of Rape and Our Understanding of Consent’ in the BILIA Auditorium.
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Revisiting the majority opinion in the 16th amendment case
While writing the majority opinion in the Government of Bangladesh and Others v Advocate Asaduzzaman Sidddiqui and Others (2017) CLR (Spl) 1 [hereinafter 'the 16th Amendment Case'],
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Analysing the draft Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act 2018
The draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 aims to make labour law worker-friendly while regulating the conduct of workers and owners in compliance with the standards of International Labour Organization (ILO).
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Conference on 'Law, Justice and Society' held at DU
The Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka organised the '1st Senior Advocate Ozair Farooq Memorial Law Conference 2018' on September 16-17, 2018.
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Genocide in Rakhine
The Liberation War Museum’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) has found that the Rohingya people have been the victims of genocide in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. In its recent empirical study conducted among the Rohingya people who fled the violence and took shelter in Cox’s Bazar after the 25th of August 2017, the CSGJ research team found credible evidences of genocide under international criminal law.
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DUMCS hosts 8th Inter Year Moot Court Competition 2018
The pioneer organisation in mooting in Bangladesh, the Dhaka University Moot Court Society (DUMCS), organised its signature annual event, the 8th Inter Year Moot Court Competition from September 14-18, 2018.
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ICC and Myanmar: Impunity ended or extended?
The recent decision of the International Criminal Court's Pre-Trial Chamber recognising the Court's jurisdiction over Myanmar's alleged crimes against humanity has been hailed as breaking new ground in the Rohingya crisis and in the pursuit of international criminal justice more broadly.
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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
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US accused of failing to protect citizens
American gun violence is “a human rights crisis” and the US government's refusal to pass gun control laws represents a violation of its
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Ensuring rights of the Harijan community
GOD has created us as equal but we the human beings have differentiated ourselves in many division, sub-division and so on.
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Judicial Conference 2018 Held at Noakhali
‘The expectations of the mass people regarding the competency of the judges is very high. Therefore, a judge has to be punctual, disciplined, wise in the verses of law and an ideal person with dignified and sophisticated behavior with the people of his territory’
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Workshop on legal research & writing held at CU
Considering the necessity of understanding legal research and writing for young law students, NILS Mooting School organised an intensive day-long workshop on Legal Research and Writing on September 7, 2018 at Institute of Fine Arts, University of Chittagong for 50 selected participants from different law schools.
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Discretionary power: is it conceit or necessity?
In Bangladesh, the judges decide cases using their discretionary power imposed by the statutes. The laws of Bangladesh have
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ELCOP brings glory to the nation
Dhaka based Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP) has received the “South Asian Excellence in Legal Education
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ICC's jurisdiction & response of Myanmar
On September 06, 2018, the International Criminal Court (ICC), composed of three judges, decided by a majority that it has jurisdiction to investigate officials of the Myanmar Government for committing acts of violence towards the Rohingya minority.
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Decriminalisation of consensual adult same-sex intimacy
A five-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court (SC) has scrapped section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) unanimously in four
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Can fidelity and liability insurance policy serve the purpose?
Now-a-days living in the 21st century of modern capitalistic society is not like as it used to be in the past, and the intrinsic beauty of
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UN finds genocide in Rakhine
The UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar was set up in March 2017 to investigate widespread allegations
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The possibility of Jute as GI product
Article 22.1 of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) defines Geographical Indications as
