This chapter is intended to provide practical guidance on the protection of persons who come into contact with HROs in the context of human rights monitoring and fact-finding activities (hereinafter: cooperating persons), and who may face threats or be subjected ...

The impact of crime on the people affected by it can be profound. Victims may suffer from physical, mental, emotional and financial harm, from which some may never recover. Injuries may be threatened or inflicted upon victims, witnesses or their ...

A civil lawsuit differs in that it is to resolve matters between private parties.  One person believes another has harmed him, and the courts are available to resolve the problem. In a civil lawsuit, an individual or corporation called the ...

In general terms, a civil lawsuit is the court-based process through which Person A can seek to hold Person B liable for some type of harm or wrongful act. Usually, if Person A is successful, he or she will usually ...

Bangladesh is home to more than 54 indigenous peoples who speak at least 35 languages, along with the majority of the Bengali population. Bangladesh has not adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the economic ...

When temporary injunction cannot be granted When the allegations made in the application are vague or indefinite, no injunction can issue. Equally, no injunction should issue in respect of a property description of which is vague and not specific. In ...

Property disputes come in many forms. Examples include individuals litigating the ownership rights of a property (land title), the location of the ownership line that separates them from one (land boundary), one’s right to use the land of another (easements), ...

Breach of contract for injunction When a party breaches a contract, a court will usually award money damages to the innocent party. But there are other types of remedies. Equitable remedies are different than monetary damages. This lesson explains specific ...

Transaction Banking (TB) can be defined as the set of instruments and services that a bank offers to trading partners to financially support their reciprocal exchanges of goods (e.g.trade), monetary flows (e.g., cash), or commercial papers (e.g., exchanges). TB allows banks to maintain close relationship with their ...

Tariff of allowances payable to witnesses in civil cases A witness is entitled to the following allowances for each 24 hours or part thereof for which thewitness is absent from his residence or place of sojourn; Subsistence allowance (a) reasonable ...