PRIVATE NUISANCE

William Prosser, a famous American legal scholar, once stated, “there is perhaps no more impenetrable jungle in the entire law than that which surrounds the word ‘nuisance.’”[1] Nuisance is part of a class of torts which protect against harms to property. Specifically, ...

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LAW OF NUISANCE

The Law of nuisance statutes can provide a starting point. Though many local governments adopt these definitions, they often supplement them with their own wording. Local ordinances also usually contain a list of specific activities or conditions that constitute a ...

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TRESPASS TO GOODS

Trespass to goods, trespass de bonis asportatis, affords a remedy where there has been a direct interference with goods in the claimant’s possession at the time of the trespass, whether that be by taking the goods from him or damaging ...

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CASE STUDY ON PROPERTY LAW

The concept of Property Law is idea or philosophy of property underlies all property law. In some jurisdictions, historically all property was owned by the monarch and it devolved through feudal land tenure or other feudal systems of loyalty and fealty. ...

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WORKERS RETRENCHMENT UNDER LABOUR LAW

Introduction Barriers to timely resolution of labour disputes involve two types of issues; one is the legal barrier and the other is the practical one. To deal with the first one, we begin by outlining the origin of Labour Courts, ...

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FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF BANGLADESH

Fundamental rights in the Constitution of Bangladesh, and the national human rights instruments acceded to by Bangladesh, provide the normative framework for protection of human rights and access to justice for all people. In practice, violations of civil and political ...

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TORTURE RESPONSIBILITY AND FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT VIOLATION

The criminal laws prevailing in Bangladesh do not have the definition of torture in particular. The definition of torture as stated in the Article-1, of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or degrading Treatment or Punishment is as follows: “Torture” ...

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FRAMING OF CHARGE IN CRIMINAL CASES

There is some criticism in some trial courts that the important task of framing charge is being entrusted to stenos by the trial judges. A fortiori, inasmuch as the Supreme Court laid down that the purpose of framing a charge ...

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