On 4 October 2018, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S.K. Kaul and K.M. Joseph dismissed an application to restrain the Government from taking steps to deport to Myanmar seven Rohingya refugees jailed in Assam.

The Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) organised its very first Law Lecture Series on 17 October 2018, Wednesday on the topic of postcolonial boundaries, international law, and the making of the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar.

The law criminalising sexist behaviour arose out of a widespread social debate in Belgium in 2012.

In the realm of international investment treaties, Fair and Equitable Treatment (hereinafter, FET) has over the years been considered as a core investment protection standard. In the same breath,

After Myanmar's circulation of a false picture (which claimed to show insurgents training while it was actually a photograph of Bangladeshi freedom fighters during the Liberation War), the Government of Myanmar has yet again come up with another false claim showing Bangladesh's St. Martin's Island as part of its territory.

Someone having some or all of the primary characteristics of both genders, male and female, is identified as Hermaphrodite/Khuntha/Intersex person (commonly known as Hijra in Bangladesh).

On October 10, 2018 Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted a seminar titled ‘Compensation as a Constitutional Remedy for Violations of Fundamental Rights’ as part of its Law in Practice Seminar Series at the BILIA auditorium.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 3 October 2018 ordered the United States to remove any restrictions on the export of humanitarian goods and services to Iran after it challenged new US sanctions in July.

The Constitution of Bangladesh envisages work as a right, assures the equality of opportunity and pledges to ensure participation of women in all spheres of public life.

The Norwegian Nobel committee said that Denis Mukwege, a doctor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, and Nadia Murad, a 25-year-old Yazidi activist, had been awarded the prize “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.

In Bangladesh, the standard of proof in prosecution of crimes is beyond-every-reasonable-doubt. And any contradiction(s) within the entire fabric of the case can weaken the prosecution by casting doubt on the story propounded thereby.

Ain o Salish Kendro (ASK) organised a two-day workshop on Public Interest Litigation (PIL) from 5th October to 6th October, 2018was at Shohagpolli, Gazipur. The workshop was participated by diverse law professionals and NGO representatives as well as lawyers from different places of Bangladesh.

The recently approved Road Transport Act 2018 has long been in the works but was accelerated for enactment by the Bangladesh Parliament in response to the groundbreaking student protests for road safety in August 2018. The Preamble to the 2018 Act states that it is being passed with a view to replacing the Motor Vehicles Ordinance 1983 keeping provisions largely unchanged save where change was necessary to modernise the law and satisfy the demands of the day.

2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence, marks the International Day of Non-violence.

Recently, the Supreme Court of India has become very enthusiastic to declare the archaic Victorian value influenced laws unconstitutional.

The Digital Security Act (DSA) 2018 aims to ensure digital security by punishing offences committed through digital media.

Barrister Rashna Imam, advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and Managing Partner of Akhtar Imam & Associate, has been chosen as Asia 21 Young Leader of 2018, from Bangladesh.

On 8 September 2018, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) hosted an expert consultation seminar titled ‘Rethinking the Definition of Rape and Our Understanding of Consent’ in the BILIA Auditorium.

The Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka organised the '1st Senior Advocate Ozair Farooq Memorial Law Conference 2018' on September 16-17, 2018.

The draft of Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 aims to make labour law worker-friendly while regulating the conduct of workers and owners in compliance with the standards of International Labour Organization (ILO).