More than a million Rohingyas are living in the refugee camps in Southern Bangladesh who are not only deprived of citizenship but also access to justice.

Last year, within 9 months, road crashes claimed more than 5,500 lives, while 33.71% of these occurred on national highways.

The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937, through section 2, envisages Islamic Shariat to have its full application in certain cases, such as gifting properties when the parties are Muslims.

The Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 (CrPC) has been the cornerstone of our administration of criminal justice for more than a century.

Unfortunately, the gendered effects of climate disasters are ignored by national policies in Bangladesh. This happens although women are more likely to be victims of trafficking, violence, and displacement.

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.

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

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.

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.

The seismic events of July-August 2024 plunged Bangladesh into a profound crisis far exceeding a mere political leadership change.

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