THE High Court verdict of September 2 that directed the government to establish a separate secretariat in the Supreme Court and to vest full disciplinary control over subordinate court judges in the apex court is a welcome development. The judgement came in response to a public interest litigation writ petition filed by a group of Supreme Court lawyers after the fall of...
The Appellate Division on Thursday began hearing a review petition challenging its 2011 verdict that annulled the constitutional provision for a non-party caretaker government, a system once credited with ensuring neutral national elections in Bangladesh...
The High Court on Sunday began delivering its verdict in a landmark custodial death case involving the killing of Urdu-speaking youth Ishtiaque Ahmed Jony who died in police custody at Pallabi police station in 2014...
The High Court is scheduled for today to deliver verdict in the appeal filed by three convicted police personnel against a lower court judgement that jailed them for life for the custodial death of car driver Ishtiaq Hossain Jony in 2014...
Civil society platform Susashoner Jonno Nagorik secretary Badiul Alam Majumdar, a petitioner against the constitution鈥檚 15th amendment, on Tuesday said that he would file an appeal challenging parts of a December High Court verdict that cancelled the amendment...
Nine years have passed since the harrowing extremist attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka鈥檚 Gulshan on July 1, 2016, that left 22 people鈥�17 of them foreign nationals鈥攄ead, but no appeal has yet been filed, challenging the High Court verdict that commuted the death sentences of seven convicts to imprisonment until death...
The Supreme Court has set Sunday for delivering order on the review petition filed against the much-discussed gazette of the service disciplinary rules for lower court judges...
Protesting interns and students of public medical colleges and hospitals on Tuesday said that they would continue their work abstention programme along with boycotting the academic activities for the next 48 hours till Thursday late night, pressing for a number of demands...
The Appellate Division on Thursday permitted One Entertainment Company, the parent company of private broadcaster Channel One, to seek permission to appeal against a 2010 High Court verdict that upheld the cancellation of its broadcasting frequency by the then Awami League government...
The Appellate Division on Sunday scrapped the High Court verdict on quota in government job and ordered a 7 per cent quota 鈥� 5 per cent for the children of freedom fighters, 1 per cent for national minorities, and 1 per cent for people with disabilities and third genders...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to hear the government appeal against the High Court verdict on quota in civil service recruitment at 10:00am today just as the curfew ends...
THE government鈥檚 filing an appeal with the Appellate Division challenging the High Court verdict that has asked prisons authorities not to keep in solitary confinement the inmates meted out death sentences before all judicial and administrative processes are...
A legal notice has been served to the district administrations to implement a High Court verdict which asked them to prohibit movement of unauthorised three-wheelers, known as Nasiman or Kariman or Bhatbhati, on highways to prevent road accident...
The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-2 on Monday set May 9 for pronouncing verdict in a case lodged over the murder of actor Sohel Chowdhury in 1998.