“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . .until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a

Imprisonment in jail is a lawful form of punishment in the criminal justice system of Bangladesh. As the Jail Code provides, offenders

The Refugee Status Determination (RSD) is a legal and administrative process undertaken by a State or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to decide as to whether a person can be considered a refugee as per the national or global legal

When Muhammad Ali Clay made entrance onto the scene in 1960 he was an 18-year-old amateur boxer with brashness and

Center for the Study of Genocide and Justice (CSGJ) of the Liberation War Museum organised a month-long certificate course

Databases play instrumental role in the development of global information infrastructure. They are developed with aims, inter alia, for faster services in all service sectors like recreation and tourism, healthcare, banking, insurance, real estate etc.

You would not read a law book unless you are a law student, and let us not talk about exceptions here. They are notorious for

MOHIT”- is the son (five years) of a divorced couple Atiq and Rehana. Both of them remarried and demanded the custody of Mohit

MR. JABBAR, a father of two residing in Kallyanpur, received an eerie phone call last night. In a muffled voice, the man from the other

On 4th May 2016, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Mr Asaduzzaman Mia made an announcement during a briefing session held at DMP media centre that DMP would not allow the use of stickers on vehicles identifying various professionals like press, police

I am a university student in Bangladesh. For a long time now, I have been receiving unwanted friend requests and a large number of

The recent verdict of the High Court Division declaring 16th Amendment of the Constitution unconstitutional has created a debate in the country, more particularly among the members of the Parliament. Hearing the verdict the session of the Parliament condemned the

22nd May has been observed as the International Biological Diversity day globally with the theme of 'Mainstreaming Biodiversity; Sustaining People and their Livelihoods' with a view to increasing awareness of biodiversity issues.

It is fair to say that alternative methods of dispute resolution (ADR) seeks to avoid the uncertainty, unpredictability, delay and high cost that are often associated with traditional litigation, while still offering a structured and predictable process to litigants.

Many of the readers have watched footages of flyover collapse in the television channels that took dozens of lives in India. However,

Law and Justice' plays an imperative role in economy. Likewise, development is often equated with economic factors only. However, law

In 2013 the Brick Manufacturing and Brick Kilns Establishment (Control) Act has been passed to establish control over brick

The role of the judges in the course of interpretation of law has at times been controversial, not just in Bangladesh but also in many

Surgeons can perform a hysterectomy on a patient with paranoid schizophrenia who has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and lacks