Towards a “consensual” constitutional convention?

This is the second consecutive time that the President has constituted a Search Committee to find some suitable candidates for the
6 February 2017

Concerns for online purchases

Due to our busy daily life, we are now-a-days relying on growing online business. Products and services like dress, shoes, food,
30 January 2017

THE PRINCIPLE OF FINALITY

I had the privilege of perusing an article titled 'To introduce the principle of finality: An urge of a judge' written by Mr. Sekander Zulker Nayeen, a learned Joint District Judge of Bangladesh Judicial Service which was published in the Law & Our Rights of The Daily Star on 24 January 2017.
30 January 2017

Accessibility for the people with physical disabilities

The definition of accessibility refers to the abilities and opportunities to reach desired goods, services, activities and destinations.
30 January 2017

Think Legal presents its 6th lecture

The 6th Lecture in the Think Legal Bangladesh Lecture Series was delivered by Hon'ble Justice Naima Haider, Hon'ble Judge of the High
30 January 2017

Opinion: Party's feast at the cost of justice

While speaking about the sorry state of public prosecution, Chief Justice SK Sinha has once again decried the present pervasive system of appointing lawyers loyal to the ruling party as public prosecutors.
29 January 2017

Juvenile delinquents and the Children Act

SINCE the gruesome murder of Adnan Kabir, a teenage resident of the capital's Uttara, the growing gang culture has
23 January 2017

Front Line Defenders Report 2016 on Human Rights Defenders

The protection and promotion of human rights has been a concern for the civilization to progress. In whatever name
23 January 2017

The benefits of restorative justice

Restorative justice is a process or mechanism to resolve a dispute outside the formal justice system. Its mandate is
23 January 2017

To introduce the principle of finality: An urge of a judge

Recently on 17 January, a serious concern has been expressed in the daily Prothom Alo regarding an estimation of
23 January 2017

To bring interdisciplinary turn in legal education

In the beginning of the 20th century, Rosco Pound's idea of conceptualising law as ‘a means of social engineering’ informs the deep-
16 January 2017

Redefining rape in war crime

On 4 January 2017, the Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the case of Prosecutor v Ntaganda came out with
16 January 2017

Ballad of ‘enclaved’ humanity

Let's imagine a scenario where a husband with his pregnant wife is denied by the border security personnel to cross the border in the
16 January 2017

Eminent domain: Has the doctrine become futile?

The power of the sovereign entity to take over or appropriate any land within its jurisdiction for any purpose that it seems necessary
16 January 2017

Seminar on legal research held at Dhaka University

On January 5, 2017, Bangladesh Law Digest (BDLD) organised a seminar on 'Legal Writings and Legal Research' at the Department of
9 January 2017

Medical negligence

Medical negligence - also termed as clinical negligence which denotes negligent act or omission by the physicians, surgeons,
9 January 2017

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
9 January 2017

Urgent re-appraisal needed

Bangladesh became a State Party to the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Children, 1989 (UNCRC) in 1990.
9 January 2017

Regulating fire incident operation

In order to combat umpteen incidents of fire accident and make the rescue process easier, the government of Bangladesh in 2003 enacted the Prevention and Extinguishment of Fire Act under which the Department of Fire Service and Civil Defence is estaAnchorblished.
8 January 2017

Looking back at the laws of 2016

As with previous years, 2016 saw a plethora of legislation. Some circled around policies, some tried to fill in the
2 January 2017