Human Rights Articles

The Role of Courts in Combating Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh Judicial Activism versus Feminism?

The problem of sexual harassment is an uncomfortable headache for Bangladesh as it has been brewing in the society for a very long time. Until recently there were no sexual harassment laws or guidelin...

Judiciary Case Comments

The case of Moulana Abdul Hakim and Judicial Review. A move towards the right direction?

The ruling in Moulana Md. Abdul Hakim v. Government of Bangladesh & Others in 2014 has extended the frontiers of judicial review under the Bangladeshi constitutional scheme. The judgment explores...

Judiciary Case Comments

Extension of the Limitation for Legal Proceedings by the Appellate Division in Fazlul Hoque v. Grameen Phone Limited.

The COVID-19 lockdown put legal systems around the world under a lot of strain. In Bangladesh, pursuant to a notification issued by the Registrar General of the Supreme Court, all courts in the countr...

Judiciary Book Review

Maintainability of Writ Petition: An Appraisal

It is not often that a Judge of the Supreme Court writes a book. The absence of publications by members of the higher judiciary has meant that the legal community has been unable to draw upon their ex...

Judiciary Case Comments

The State v. Advocate Md. Qamrul Islam and Another (2016)

The last couple of years have seen a noticeable spike in the number of proceedings for the contempt of scandalization. In January 2015, the editor and joint editor of the most widely distributed natio...

Judiciary Book Review

Remembering Thurgood Marshall: A courageous lawyer and a great judge

It would not be an overstatement to say that no person has achieved more for race equality through legal processes than did Thurgood Marshall for the greater part of the last century. He pursued his p...