Law quotations

Law quotations
17 December 2018

Legal Analysis on Pornography

Beautiful beaches have a natural trap called 'Quicksand'. When a person walks over it, he sinks down and it pushes the water out creating a vacuum effect that captivate the victim tighter and tighter giving almost no way to rescue.
17 December 2018

Punishment in Educational Institutions

Children are very precious to their parents. However, in reality, parents and teachers who act in loco parentis continue to punish children with corporal and psychological torture
17 December 2018

Towards a better labour law – Recent amendments to Bangladesh Labour Act 2006

The Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 (the “Act”) has recently been amended by the Government of Bangladesh. Overall, it is notable that the rights of workers have been expanded, but the amendments do not focus solely on workers' rights.
17 December 2018

BLAST holds National Conference on Rape Law Reform

On 8th December 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) held a National Conference on Rape Law Reform at CIRDP International Conference Centre,
17 December 2018

Discussion on ‘Legal Academia and Pro-bono Culture’ held at DU

The Centre for Advanced Legal Studies (CALS), University of Dhaka (DU), in collaboration with iProbono, hosted a Discussion Session on ‘Legal Academia
12 December 2018

DIU Law Department observes Int’l Human Rights day

The Department of Law, Daffodil International University (DIU) celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2018, at the 71 Milonayoton of its campus.
12 December 2018

Artificial Intelligence through the lens of Human Rights

Nowadays, individuals carry out most of their actions with the help of technologies with or without knowing the consequences
10 December 2018

SDGs for better protection of Human Rights

The SDGs are built upon the success of the MDGs and they came into force officially on 1 January, 2016. There are 17 Sustainable
10 December 2018

The constitutional reality of Right to Vote

Democracy is believed to be one of the most successful political ideas in the present world. Democracy lets people speak their minds
10 December 2018

SEVENTY YEARS OF UDHR : The fight for human dignity

This year, Human rights day will mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR, 1948), the core
10 December 2018

CO2 emissions on rise after 3 years

A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rose again during 2017.
3 December 2018

Defining the extent of 'Office of Profit'

Article 66 of the Bangladesh Constitution expressly enumerates number of disqualifications to become a member of the parliament or to compete for the respective election.
3 December 2018

BITs of Bangladesh

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) contractualise agreed upon legal obligations for the safest possible protection to each other's foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the parties' territories.
3 December 2018

Judges can be friends with lawyers in Facebook

The Supreme Court (SC) of Florida, USA has ruled by a 4:3 majority that it is okay for judges to be friends in Facebook with the attorneys appearing before them and Facebook friendship as such is not a sufficient ground for disqualifying the judge from considering the matter in question on the ground of likelihood of bias.
26 November 2018

Protecting 'Climate Induced Migrants' of Bangladesh

The annual report 2017 of Internal Displacement Monitoring Center-Bangladesh shows that, Bangladesh is impregnated with 946000 internally displaced people.
26 November 2018

Set off and carry forward of losses in taxation

Set off means adjustment of losses from some heads with income of other head(s) to get the taxable income. The provision of set off is laid in section 37 of Income Tax Ordinance 1984.
26 November 2018

STRINGENT RECOVERY SYSTEM

Media reports sometimes claim that the law for recovery of non-performing loans (NPL) as crafted in the principal law in force in this regard, the Money Loan Court Act, 2003 (MLCA) is too soft towards the borrowers.
26 November 2018

User's privacy in using Apps

When a smartphone user wants to install the Flashlight App, the app may ask to access the call logs and the contacts. Again that same user might want to launch a newly installed Calendar App that wants access to the user's camera or asks to read the messages.
19 November 2018

Balancing economic growth and clean environment

Bangladesh has sustained vigorous economic growth, 6.7 percent of GDP per year on average, by massive industrial development and urbanisation.
19 November 2018