Thirty-eight years ago, on the 7th day of August, the founder editor of Dhaka Law Reports (DLR) Obaidul Huq Chowdhury, left this mortal world for his eternal abode. Today, we remember him with a deep sense of reverence. He founded the DLR to project the views of the then Dhaka High Court on legal jurisprudence.

Climate change is no longer solely an environmental issue; it has become a critical human rights challenge, especially for the most vulnerable communities.

BLAST welcomes the promulgation of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance, and the safeguards introduced into the law on arrest and remand.

The right to vote is a cornerstone of any democracy. The fundamental nature of such a right places an obligation on a country to enable its citizens to vote and elect their representative.

After 47 years, the Territorial Water and Maritime Zones Act of 1974 had been updated with a lengthy amendment back in 2021.

On 21 July, in a tragic aviation disaster, a training aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force crashed into a two-storey academic building of Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka, resulting in numerous casualties. A writ-petition has been filed with the High Court Division (HCD) of the Bangladesh Supreme Court seeking compensation for the deceased and injured. The court directed the government to form a committee to investigate into the incident and issued a rule asking why adequate compensation should not be provided to the victims.

The fifth edition of the RANCON Presents SCLS National Law Olympiad, themed “Environmental Law and Climate Justice,” was held from 11 to 12 July 2025, at the Faculty of Law, University of Chittagong.

Intellectual property (IP) law remains a relatively unexplored area in Bangladesh. From judicial pronouncements to academic scholarships, there is an evident scarcity of authoritative and critically analytical literature on this subject.

Bangladesh’s trade has doubled in a decade, yet border trade formalities remain manual, redundant, and outdated. While peers digitise, Bangladesh risks falling behind without urgent reform.

The Israeli attacks on Gaza continues to have deadly humanitarian impact.

Although tort law has great potential to ensure accountability and remedy for quotidian civil wrongs, it is largely disregarded and neglected in Bangladesh.

Revival of a criminal proceeding previously stopped under section 249 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (CrPC) involves important questions about procedural legality and judicial interpretation.

On 1 July 2025, the Legal Aid Services (Amended) Ordinance, 2025 came into effect. The newly enacted ordinance introduced both pre-case and post-case mediation, either physically or virtually by mutual compromise.

In recent years, governments of so-called developed countries have increasingly restricted their visa policies as a diplomatic measure against developing nations.

The Constitution of Bangladesh promises equality, but for a sizeable population of women, this promise has yet to be materialised.

A prominent human rights organisation Ain o Shalish Kendra reported that there was 4,787 incidents of reported rape cases in Bangladesh from January 2020 to September 2024. This implies that nearly one woman was raped in every nine hours in Bangladesh. According to legal experts, even this horrific rape data is quite underrepresented because many cases go unreported as the survivors fear stigma, get discouraged by close ones, or harbour general distrust in the justice system. In these circumstances, in addition to giving punishments to the convict, tort remedies can be a pivotal tool as they focus on the victim and make the convict accountable for rehabilitation of the victim.

Recently, the Constitution Reform Commission (CRC) has made certain reform proposals to be brought to the Constitution. Two main reforms are central to the CRC’s proposal relating to fundamental rights. First, the CRC advocates for the justiciability of socio-economic rights, recognising them as enforceable legal rights subject to “progressive realisation” based on available resources. Judicial oversight would ensure that the state demonstrates reasonable efforts in fulfilling these rights.

A compelling exchange once took place between Shami Chakrabarti, former president of the UK-based human rights organisation Liberty, and the eminent jurist Lord Thomas Bingham following his lecture on ‘The Rule of Law’.

The newly enacted Supreme Court Judges’ Appointment Ordinance 2025 marks a potentially significant move toward a fairer and more transparent judicial appointment process in Bangladesh. This initiative comes at a time when discussions and anxieties surrounding the selection of judges for the higher courts are prevalent. Hence, the details of the Ordinance need to be carefully assessed.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer the future— it is the present. From global finance to health, surveillance to academics, and the legal profession, AI systems are  now integrated into many aspects of our everyday life.