Roundtable discussion on Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and Population Council jointly hosted the Roundtable Discussion on the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 in collaboration with the University of Kent...
15 May 2019

Compensating transboundary environmental harm

On February 2, 2018, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) awarded compensatory damages to Costa Rica for internationally wrongful
13 May 2019

Bridging the standardisation gap

The World Telecommunication Day (WTD), celebrated annually on 17 May, marks the anniversary of the founding of International
13 May 2019

The legal regime on food safety and human health

The High Court Division (HCD) had issued a suo motu rule asking the respective authorities regarding adulteration of dairy products
13 May 2019

A preposterous directive on the apprentice lawyers

The delay in the advocate enrolment examination has already fermented deep frustration among many aspiring lawyers rightfully
13 May 2019

Is ”Legal Aid” a constitutional right?

Political philosopher Charles de Montesquieu said, “In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
6 May 2019

Revisiting Small Cause Courts Act

The Small Cause Courts Act 1887 was brought to regulate small issues and matters by the assigned courts. It is no doubt that the law was brought with the purpose of resolving disputes of small nature in a convenient manner.
6 May 2019

Your Advocate

This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a renowned law firm, namely, ‘Legal Counsel’, which has expertise mainly in commercial law, corporate law, family law,
6 May 2019

Media to fight against disinformation

World Press Freedom Day was observed on May 03, 2019. The day, which commemorates the Declaration of Windhoek, was first proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993.
6 May 2019

DU competes Media Law Moot Court in Oxford

The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme established by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, is the largest mooting competition in the field of international media law.
6 May 2019

Book launching ceremony held at BILIA

Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) organised the launching of “Case Management in Reducing Case Backlog:
29 April 2019

Legal framework for workplace safety

Workplace health and safety conditions in Bangladesh has seen steady improvements since the disastrous Rana Plaza incident which
29 April 2019

Protecting the workers of informal sector

International Labor Organization has demonstrated in its recent report that there are 2 billion workers across the world working in the
29 April 2019

Parliamentary Reform: Making Sense of Our Successes and Failures

The Parliament of Bangladesh has been subject to a lot of historical, institutional and doctrinal analysis over the years.Authors
29 April 2019

World Book and Copyright Day 2019

April 23 marks the anniversary of the birth or death of a range of well-known writers, including Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Maurice
22 April 2019

ELCOP's first signature lecture held in DU

Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP), established in 1999, is a voluntary, non-profitable, non-political, non-
22 April 2019

Legal mechanism to control air pollution

Over the past two years, Dhaka has been among the top five cities of the world in terms of pollution. According to the Environmental
22 April 2019

THE ONGOING ROHINGYA CRISIS

Since August 2017, the ongoing Rohingya humanitarian crisis and the associated international crimes against the ethnic Rohingyas
22 April 2019

The effectiveness of environment courts

The Environment Court Act 2010 was passed with a view to ensuring the expedited disposal of environmental cases.To that end,
15 April 2019

Your Advocate

I am Rubaba Khatun, HR of a Multinational Company of Dhaka. I am writing regarding one of the deceased employees of our company.
15 April 2019