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Pakistan and India BANGLADESH 'fhis trausformation was uudertaken by a colonial governing order. Colonial encounter in Bengal, as in many other colonised societies, inevitably entailed changes in the legal system. In fact, legislating liiv's furthe colonised This is an edited version of parts of chapters \ and 7 of my The Transformation of Colonial Perceptions into Legal Nonns: Legislating for Crime and Punishment in Beneal. 1790s to 1820s. unpublished Ph.

A large number of statutes, over the last quarter of a centttr/, have provided for death sentence as punishment for various crimes. The Penal Code ol 7860, oll1' primary criminai law, contains only 7 crimes which arc punishable by sentences of death. In comparison, one of the most recent penal statue, Nari O Shisu Nirjatan Domon Biswes Ain 2000, enacted in February of this year, prescribes death sentences for as many 9 crimes. However, this ultimate sentence is imposed primarily in crimes of murder. Though the number of crimes, particularly the heinous ones, are certainly on rise and the sentences of death are being provicled for increasingly large number of crimes, these issues of crimes and punishment have not attracted academic attention. In fact, besides news reports on gruesome mllrders and sometimes on verdicts in sensational murder cases, the issne of sentence of death does not seem to have attracted figr-rred at all in academic analysis and articles and we have found only one previously published article on death sentence.l As for imposition of the sentence of death, there were (in September of 2000) 174 'condemned prisoners' in the jails of the country. The Daily. Research for this article, as a Part of a larger undertaking on death sentence, was funded by a grant from Grameen Trust. I am indebted to my research assistants Zafrvl Hasan Sharif and Layla Pervin for invaluable assistance in collecting unreported judgements, collating information from these judgements and other useful inputs, .

BiLD Law Journal 4(2), 2019

JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH, 2019

INTRODUCTION The case of Anwar Hussain Chowdhury vs. Bangladesh commonly known as 8th amendment case is an important judgment in the constitutional history of independent Bangladesh. This is the first decision whereby the Supreme Court of Bangladesh overruled an amendment to the constitution by the parliament. In this case, the supreme court of Bangladesh in a 1989 famous decision case recognized the basic structure doctrine or the idea of ‘unconstitutional constitutional amendment’ ruling that parliament lacks authority to amend the Constitution in a system that would abolish its basic structure.i The case which judicial review is shown in subarticle 5 of article 100 is inconsistent with articles 44 and 114. However, Mohammad Moin Uddin and Rakiba Nabi, who said that “While judicial review itself is a debated phenomenon in democratic countries, its use in constitutional amendments adds further complexity to the debate”.ii Because the amending power of the parliament does not extend to that which can change the basic structure of the constitution. This case is in relation to changing six benches of high court division outside of the Dhaka, which is contradictory to Bangladesh constitution. The aim of this paper is to maintain the basic structure of the constitution, which the parliament eliminated through their amendment powers. Nevertheless, this paper will firstly the fact of the case and then will do critical analysis what was the problem in the 8th amendment of independence Bangladesh which goes against public laws.

Senior Advocate, Mr. M.I.Farooqui, Senior Advocate, Mr. Fida M. Kamal, Senior Advocate.

This is the outline for a required course titled 'Legal Methods' which was taught to the First-Year students in the Five-Year Integrated B.A.,LL.B. programme during the July-September 2024 Trimester at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. For this academic year, the instructors were Ms. Prerna Dhoop (Section A), Dr. Salmoli Chaudhuri (Section B), Ms. Malini Chidambaram (Section C), Mr. Sidharth Chauhan (Section D) and Dr. Ashna Singh (Section E). The course content benefited from contributions made in earlier iterations by Mr. Raag Yadava and Mr. Bhavin Patel.

Asian Yearbook of International Law, 2019

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This study was made possible by the support, tolerance and constant motivation of my very supportive and patient supervisor, Mr Viateur Bangayandusha. Therefore, I am very grateful of his support. I would also like to thank the leadership of University of Kigali valuable administrative and technical guidance and encouragement I wish I could list all individuals and institutions that contributed, in one way or another, to the successful completion of my study. But they are too many to mention all. Last but not least, I am most deeply grateful to my family, for helping me strive towards the realization of my potentials and all the inconveniences you have encountered during my absence and your wonderful support and patience during my stay away from home.

Jurnal Institutions and Economies, 2021

The literature on law and economics argues that economic considerations have an important implication for consistent and efficient legal practices. In line with this tradition, this paper aims to analyse legal verdicts through the lens of transaction cost to ascertain if judicial decision takes social cost into account. In so doing, the research draws upon the literature of transaction cost theory, which examines the implications of transaction cost for legal verdicts. Data for the analysis consist of legal verdicts collected from Bangladesh. The paper shows that judicial decisions are influenced by economic matters, especially social and transaction costs. When the issue of these costs is clear, judges take this into consideration in deciding who should own what rights. This research contributes to the literature of law and economics by providing new information, which is believed to help regulators, policymakers, and legal practitioners in deciding value-creating property rights.