Hhuman rights norms are considered to be the most non-violent weapon of 'rebellion against tyranny and oppression'. Despite the existence of normative framework of international human rights, massive human rights violations occur in scores of country.

Recently a debate has been triggered regarding the provision of life imprisonment with a statement made by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha that life sentence literally means imprisonment until one's natural death. This raised a question whether imprisonment for life denotes imprisonment till natural death or any defined period of time.

In financial sectors like banking or insurance, “time is money” is not a mere quote, it is indeed the case. An alternative course of action, if present, would actually save time and expenses by averting cumbersome litigation proceedings.

London College of Legal Studies (South), Affiliate Centre of University of London and registered support centre for BPP conducted

Terrorism has been now labeled as the systematic internal or external violence and intimidation practiced by organised

Our experience with HIV/AIDS epidemic or Ebola catastrophe at African nations, Zika Virus outbreak in Brazil has vividly

Right to own (inherit) property is a basic right and neither an individual nor the State can snatch away this right arbitrarily. The

Sohagi Jahan Tonu's alleged rape and murder has unveiled some of the fundamental flaws of our criminal justice system

ARTICLE 33 of the Constitution of People's Republic of Bangladesh guarantees the following rights for the arrested/detained person:

Wars and persecution have driven more people from their homes than at any time since UNHCR records began, according to a new report released on 20 June by the UN Refugee Agency. The report, entitled Global Trends, noted that on average 24 people were forced to flee each minute in 2015, four times more than a decade earlier, when six people fled every 60 seconds.

The Artha Rin Adalat Ain 2003 was enacted by the legislature of Bangladesh to address loan recovery process by financial institutions/banks. In our country, defaulter borrowers often challenge the Act of 2003 invoking writ jurisdiction through applying to the High Court Division (HCD) under Article 102 of the Constitution of Bangladesh. They stress on the issue that the Act of 2003 does not put financial institutions/banks and borrowers on equal footing.

In the 5th Distinguished Law Lecture Series, organised by the Department of Law and Human Rights of the University of Asia Pacific, Dr. Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, the Honourable Judge at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, delivered a lecture on the issue of judicial review in reference to a reported case of Md. Abdul Hakim v Government of Bangladesh and others 34 BLD (HCD) 129. In this case, as it was evident in Dr. Justice Ahmed's lecture, the court explored the extent of judicial reviewability of actions and decisions of private bodies operating in the public domain.

A complex yet sensitive issue concerning the suitability of the Supreme Court (SC) as the guardian of the Constitution of Bangladesh,

ON the day of 23rd of May 2016, when most people were returning to their work stations after a long weekend, obscured from this frenzied rush is Iqbal (pseudonym), who works as a driver in Dhaka, cries helplessly on hearing that Molly (pseudonym) his 8 years old daughter, has been brutally raped in their home in Madaripur. The perpetrator, Shamol (pseudonym), is approximately 18 years old.

The process of law reform is notorious for its snail's pace in Bangladesh. But recently, after reading the book Bangladeshe Ainer Sanskar O Ain (2016) by one of our leading legal academics Professor Shah Alam, a question popped into my mind: where is the snail of reform now? Is it alive or in a coma?

The world we are in today is greatly dependent on the free flow of trade and investment. Arbitration is one of the most common ways of

My academic journey of law was eventful. I got fixated with the idea of studying law in the Great Britain right before my exams of MA in

On the 24th of June this year the whole world woke up to the startling results of a referendum where a majority of British citizens had

“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.”

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