The squalid saga of secret arrests says much about how we are governed today – little of it good. To recap, Lord Justice Leveson suggested that the names of those arrested or suspected of crimes should not be released to the public or media “save in exceptional and clearly identified circumstances”.

Taking stock of "lessons learnt" from the recent stand-off in Ladakh after a Chinese incursion there, India and China on Monday decided on further measures for maintaining peace and tranquility along their border.

No one should be jailed in secret, the lord chief justice has said in urgent guidance sent out to judges following the court of protection`s imprisonment of a woman for contempt.

India and Pakistan must seize the moment to turn a crisis into an opportunity that would prevent their strained relations from reaching a breaking point.

Imagine being an international human rights lawyer. Jetsetting round the globe, setting the world`s highest courts alight with spectacular oratory performances, radically changing the lives of the most vulnerable. Hell, there`s probably a Nobel peace prize in there somewhere too right?

Women are most wanted subjects of literature, and Bangladeshi women are no exception. The beauty and charm of Bangladeshi women are decorated in poems, legends and short stories. But the suffering of Bangladeshi women hardly comes out in the literature.

After 7th Parliament elections in 2001, Bangladesh Nationalist Party gained a majority, largely on the basis of their law and order and national security policies within Bangladesh...writes P.M. Serajul Islam

Britain`s highest court for the first time convened behind closed doors -- in a case involving an Iranian bank -- just one week after the Supreme Court decided it had the power to sit in secret.

WHEN Myanmar’s newly installed president and former soldier, Thein Sein, kick-started the country’s political transition two years ago, he hoped to usher in a clean and steady advance towards some sort of orderly democracy. Now, however, things are starting to turn out rather differently.

Speakers at a seminar in Southeast University underscored the need for arbitration for reducing the backlogs of commercial cases in Bangladesh...writes Emdadul Haque