The Supreme Court on Tuesday clarified that chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed did not issue any show-cause or explanation notices to three High Court judges, Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam, Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman, and Justice Md Zakir Hossain, over the granting of a large number of bail...
Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed has issued show-cause notices to three High Court judges, Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam, Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman, and Justice Md Zakir Hossain, asking them to explain within three days the large number of bail orders...
As the world observes World Development Information Day today, the occasion serves not as a celebration but as a profound summons to action. Established by the UN in 1972, its mandate is stark: to 鈥榙raw the attention of the world to development problems.鈥� This year, the day coincides with the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, themed 鈥楤uilding Our Future...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Saturday once again banned public gatherings, rallies and demonstrations in areas surrounding the Supreme Court and the chief justice鈥檚 official residence in the capital.
Justice Md Ashfaqul Islam will act as Chief Justice from October 14 to October 18, during the Thailand visit of chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed.
Participants at a discussion on access to justice for marginalised people at the village level on Tuesday called for stronger coordination among government agencies, non-governmental organisations and development partners to make village courts more effective in resolving local disputes...
Senior district judge Liaquet Ali Molla, who was serving as an acting secretary of the Law and Justice Division, has been appointed the division鈥檚 secretary.
The would-be assassin of US Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was sentenced Friday to just over eight years in prison鈥攆ar less than the 30 years prosecutors had sought.
The filing of false cases continued over incidents during the July uprising, creating doubt and concern among the victims about getting justice in the cases.
Sonali Bank PLC on Monday signed a tri-party memorandum of understanding with Law and Justice Division and Bangladesh Supreme Court, said a press release...
THE violence leading to deaths, injuries and destruction of houses and businesses of national minority communities in Khagrachari is a consequence of ethnically biased state policies towards the national minorities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, an issue that successive governments left unattended. On September 28, at least three Marma youths were killed and several...
Justice sector experts on Wednesday called for raising public awareness to strengthen village courts for resolving minor disputes at the local level...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 criminal justice framework has undergone a significant shake-up in 2025. The Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898, has been amended twice within a month 鈥� first in July and again in August 鈥� introducing both procedural refinements and major changes affecting arrests, trials and penalties. At first glance, these amendments seem to strengthen...
EVERY year on September 4, the world observes World Sexual Health Day, a global initiative that underlines the essential role of sexual health in human well-being. Sexual health is not merely the absence of disease or dysfunction; it embodies safety, responsibility, dignity and fundamental rights. Promoting it ensures that every individual, regardless of gender, age or...
A SINGLE district police memo tells the story. The language of 鈥榩ermission first,鈥� the stress on 鈥榦rders,鈥� the presumption that authority flows in one direction: these are not quirks of one officer on one day. They are the reflexes of a legal order built to govern subjects rather than to serve citizens. Much of Bangladesh鈥檚 day-to-day criminal justice still runs on statutes...
The chief justice, Syed Refaat Ahmed, on Tuesday administered oath of offices of 25 newly appointed additional High Court judges...
THERE is something profoundly disquieting about a moral catastrophe unfolding under the glaring light of international attention鈥攐nly to be met with an American shrug and a diplomatic shrug-off. Israel鈥檚 unfolding plan to seize full military and administrative control of Gaza, paired with the dismaying acquiescence of the United States, ought to alarm every...
BANGLADESH is at the forefront of climate chaos. From scorching heatwaves to unrelenting floods, environmental stresses are remaking the nation鈥檚 social and economic fabric. Women, particularly poor and rural women, bear the brunt. But they are seldom viewed as the heart of climate leadership. In a world heating faster than expected, an equitable climate future...
Families of the five journalists, killed during the past year鈥檚 July mass uprising, said that justice for the martyrs seemed elusive as there had been no progress in the process even after a year since the uprising...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency, in partnership with Bangladesh鈥檚 law and justice division and Judicial Administration Training Institute, successfully concluded a two-day basic mediation training programme under its Access to Justice Project...
The European Court of Justice said on Friday national courts must be permitted to carry out detailed reviews of arbitral awards by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque and economist professor Abul Barkat have been sharing same building as division 1 inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one country may, indeed, sue another for climate change. The words hung heavy in the air, stirring both celebrations and scepticism. Rightly so...
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was arrested by a Detective Branch team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police at his Dhanmondi house in Dhaka Thursday morning.
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday nominated justice Md Rezaul Haque as judge-in-chamber-1 and justice Farah Mahbub as judge-in-chamber-2, forming two chamber judge courts to dispose of emergency matters at the Appellate Division...
UNDERSTANDING the concept of environmental crime is a complex attempt that seeks consideration of the overall socio-cultural as well as political structure of a particular area. And the narrow view of criminology and criminal justice theories are changing over time. The idea of environmental justice within the criminological literature started to become prevalent in the...
Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Thursday warned that judicial independence in the country remains structurally compromised. Without meaningful reform, he cautioned, the country鈥檚 democratic governance and legal progress are at a serious risk.
THERE has long been speculation that the Easter bombing of April 2019 had a relationship to Sri Lankan politics. The near simultaneous bombings of three Christian churches and three luxury hotels, with a death toll of 270 and over 500 injured, by Muslim suicide bombers made no sense in Sri Lanka where there has been no history of conflict between the two religions...
SEXUAL and reproductive health and rights lie at the foundation of bodily freedom, gender justice and fair development. They are not limited to medical access but stretch into the right to decide 鈥� freely and safely 鈥� about one鈥檚 body, one鈥檚 relationships and one鈥檚 future. For Bangladesh, which has made remarkable socio-economic progress in recent decades, ensuring...
Protests against the July 9 killing of a trader allegedly by the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-affiliated organisations near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital continued for the third day on Sunday...
