The issue of competition law compliance for the e-commerce sector

Businesses are constantly complaining against the anti-competitive behaviours of the e-commerce platforms. The accusations against them are quite templatic: deep-discounting, self-preferencing, manipulation in search ranking, misuse of consumer data.
10 December 2021

Bangladesh should withdraw its reservation on the UN Genocide Convention

Bangladesh’s independence is among the few examples of successful remedial secessions in the narratives of state succession.
10 December 2021

BAIUST law students visit Rohingya camps

A group of law students from the Bangladesh Army International University of Science & Technology (BAIUST) have recently visited one of the world’s largest refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
4 December 2021

The nuances of confessional statement made by a child

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”. 
3 December 2021

Singing the same tune: Ending violence against women now

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.
3 December 2021

Legal recourse for a misstated prospectus

A prospectus is a document that gives details of a company’s activities and aims to persuade the public to invest in their company.
3 December 2021

Eastern University Mooting team wins an honour for Bangladesh 

Eastern University Mooting Team has qualified for the international rounds of the Stetson International Environmental Moot Court
28 November 2021

Is there a Universal Definition of Corruption?

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.
26 November 2021

Rectification of share register by shareholders

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.
26 November 2021

The use of foreign judgment in the legal system of Bangladesh

The judicial use of international laws, judgments in formal adjudicative courts is being seen and recognised around the world to an increasing extent.
26 November 2021

The New Shipbuilding Policy: A new future ahead

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.
19 November 2021

Should there be a regional body to deal with human rights issues?

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.
19 November 2021

Rape, limitation, and due process: Constitutional rights in action

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.
19 November 2021

Won’t be right to formulate EC law in a hurry: Law minister

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.
18 November 2021

Bangladesh Bank’s rules of export documents require an amendment

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.
12 November 2021

Resolving disputes without involving the court

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.
12 November 2021

Protecting trade secrets while franchising a business

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.
12 November 2021

MLM on digital platforms: Legality and efficient enforcement of law

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.
5 November 2021

Proposal to improve the current state of recording confessional statement

In our criminal legal framework, confession is a valuable piece of evidence. Many death sentences have been awarded solely based on confession.
5 November 2021

Wife’s right to dower in case of divorce initiated by wife

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.
5 November 2021