In a landmark judgment in Anis Miah v State, Criminal Appeal No. 6799 of 2011, a full bench of the High Court Division (HCD) deliberated on the “legal implication of confession made under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure [CrPC] by a child in conflict with law”. 

Nina Goswami (NG): In the past years, the government has appeared proactive as a response to many incidents of violence and mass reactions to the same.

Eastern University Mooting Team has qualified for the international rounds of the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court

Various scholars, anti-corruption researchers and international organisations define corruption in many ways. Transparency International (TI), a non-governmental anti-corruption organisation, defines corruption as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.

All the companies registered in Bangladesh are bound to keep a ‘register of members’ from the date of the registration. Such register shall be kept at the registered office of the company and allowed for inspection by the members free of cost during business hours.

The judicial use of international laws, judgments in formal adjudicative courts is being seen and recognised around the world to an increasing extent.

As a riverine country, Bangladesh has a long history of shipbuilding. Chattogram which is known as the port city of Bangladesh, has been involved in building of ships since the Mughal empire and with the flow of time, the tradition continues.

Imagine a human rights violation that suffers impunity inside the country, but that can be held accountable by an international body of some sort. Examples could be custodial torture, or enforced disappearances, or extra-judicial killings – all of which have abysmal track records of getting justice at Bangladesh’s courts.

Democratic society is based on consent. Sexual relationship must be consensual. Otherwise, it amounts to a crime according to section 375 of the Penal Code, 1860. The question of consent is raised in defence of the accused and therefore the onus probandi (burden of proof) rests on the accused, although the general principle is that the onus is on the prosecution.

Law Minister Anisul Huq today said the government is sincere to formulate a law for formation of the Election Commission (EC), but it would not be right to make it in a hurry.

The open account trade means international trade against contract without any Letter of Credit (LC), which is mostly common in developed countries. Bangladesh was far behind from the open account trade transaction scheme in export. Our main competitors in readymade garments (RMG) export get competitive advantage of open account payment method in export.

Mediation is one of the alternative ways of dispute settlement without taking resort to legal actions, whereby the parties select their mediator(s) and resolve disputes maintaining utmost confidentiality.

Franchising can be a good model to expand a business of the franchisor by granting license to franchisees. Generally, this gives a franchisee an access to use the knowledge, processes, ‘know-hows’ and trademarks of the franchisor and sell a branded product or service under their goodwill and name.

Generally, Multi-level Marketing (MLM) refers to a business scheme where a company’s revenue derives from selling the products or services of a company where the participants or workforce of that company achieve their earnings through a pyramid scheme.

In our criminal legal framework, confession is a valuable piece of evidence. Many death sentences have been awarded solely based on confession.

There exists a wide misbelief among the general people of the society that the payment of any unpaid dower is avoidable or non-payable where the process of dissolution of marriage is initiated by the wife.

What is the source of legality or legal validity (‘Boidhota’ in Bengali) of a constitution? A superior law? India and Pakistan got their independence and established two constituent assemblies via the enactment of the Indian Independence Act, 1947.

Once again Bangladesh has recently witnessed communal violence in different districts during the Durga puja (worship of the Mother Goddess) of the people with Hindu religious faith, a fundamental religious right duly recognised and embodied in the Constitution of Bangladesh.

In the Muslim community, the concept of Hilla marriage is certainly a controversial one. According to the existing law, a Muslim man can divorce his wife and can revoke such divorce twice.

Due to the ongoing pandemic the business operation of our company has been substantially reduced. Recently, the company authority has informed us that they no longer need some members of staff (mostly in non-management departments) as they have nothing to do at this moment.