Justice-seeking citizens will need a digital pass to enter the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court from Wednesday. They have to collect it from the Supreme Court website. A copy of the NID card and mobile phone contact will be required to be submitted for the pass. The Supreme Court announced the move through a […]
Google challenged the directive in the Supreme Court saying it would harm consumers and its business, warning that the development of the Android ecosystem could be stalled. A three-judge bench, comprising the Chief Justice of India, deferred by a week the date for the CCI directions to come into effect on January 19, but refused […]
Here are the 10 directives of authority: Google should not be allowed to license its Play Store, from which users download mobile apps, on the condition that device makers pre-install Google apps such as YouTube, Gmail or the Chrome browser. Google should not force device makers to pre-install a bouquet of apps or decide their […]
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has ordered Grameenphone, Robi and Banglalink to pay a total of Tk 23.55 billion in various fees and value-added tax. Grameenphone alone will have to pay Rs 11.65 billion, while Robi will pay Rs 6.25 billion and Banglalink Rs 5.65 billion. An appellate bench headed by Chief Justice […]
Catalonia’s Supreme Court said on Tuesday that former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves is under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in a Spanish nightclub last month. Alves denies any wrongdoing. A Barcelona court said in a statement that it had “opened proceedings for an alleged crime of sexual assault as a result […]
Supporters of Brazil’s former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Supreme Court, the Congress building and surrounded the presidential palace in Brasilia on Sunday, according to television images. In an echo of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the US Capitol by supporters of former US President Donald Trump, several thousand protesters vandalized buildings and […]
Let us go back to the case against Mirza Fakhrul, for example. Nearly 100 cases have been registered against him in the last decade. He remained in jail for more than 300 days and got bail in many cases. There is also no allegation by the government against him of trying to abscond after getting […]
When asked about the status of the High Court’s bail order, he said, “The High Court’s judgment was not stayed. So, for now, their judgment is in effect.” “We told the Chambers Court that we will not grant bail within this time period.” A High Court panel comprising Justice Mohammad Salim and Justice Riyaz Uddin […]
A December media report alleged that another contender for the top job, Justice Yasmin Esquivel, had plagiarized her graduate thesis, amid a debate about who should lead the court. She takes over from Arturo Zaldivar. Esquivel vehemently denied the allegations, which prompted an investigation by his alma mater, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). […]
Iran’s Supreme Court has accepted appeals by two protesters sentenced to death because of flaws in the investigation of their cases, the country’s judiciary said on Saturday. “The Supreme Court has accepted the appeals of Mohammad Kubdlu and Saman Saidi Yasin, accused of the recent riots,” the Mizan news agency of the judiciary reported. “Due […]
The members of the fact-finding mission, who will act in their individual capacities, were requested to present an oral update during an interactive dialogue at the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council in June 2023 and present a comprehensive report to the Council. Its findings during an interactive dialogue at its fifty-fifth session to […]
He called upon all, irrespective of party affiliations, to play their due role in establishing democracy and rule of law in the country by showing due respect to the Constitution. He said that the Bangladesh Supreme Court since its inception has been playing a very important role as the guardian and protector of the Constitution […]
This commemorative note will be available for sale from December 19 at the Head Office of BB and subsequently from all branches of BB. The note had the picture of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the logo of the ‘Golden Jubilee of the Constitution and the Supreme Court’ on the front. […]
The High Court has declared contempt of court law 2013 illegal and unconstitutional today. This verdict came from a high court bench comprising Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain. The government enacted the law this year to replace Contempt of Court Law 1926. But a writ petition was filed challenging section 4, […]
According to the Montesquieu’s theory of separation of powers, political authority should be divided into three parts; executive, legislative and judiciary. The constitution of Bangladesh also supported this theory. But consecutive governments failed to implement this. Later the Supreme Court directed the government to separate judiciary from the executive. Two elected governments delayed the […]