Number of Complex construction disputes involving infrastructure projects are rising. Responsibility of the employer and the bidder and successful tenderer on conducting pre-bid feasibility study of the project site is often confusing as the tender document often do not clearly address the issue. If a major flaw is found at later stages on selection of site etc, both employer and... Read More
The SAARC Arbitration Council (SARCO) has organized a Webinar titled: "Arbitration in Bangladesh: Navigating the Legal Landscape and key institutional developments" to be held on the 30th of May 2023, 3.00 - 3.30 pm (Bangladesh Time) to provide a holistic overview of the legal and institutional developments relating to Arbitration in Bangladesh. We are pleased to announce that our esteemed Head... Read More
Summary: Bangladesh's commerce sector is expanding day by day despite numerous disagreements that are occurring in between. Most businessmen use arbitration as a method of resolving any conflict that arises outside of court. Arbitration is favored as a faster and cheaper alternative to litigation. Content: A Bangladeshi company called Khan IT and Services had been receiving computer accessories from a Singapore-based company... Read More
Mr. Mohammed Forrukh Rahman is appointed as a delegate of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR in 2022 as nominated by ICC Bangladesh. This 100-year-old prestigious think tank provided the first draft of the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. (New York, 1958), commonly known as the New York Convention, which is ratified by... Read More
Summary: Today we are all dependent on electronic communication for each sector. And the Electronic Communications Convention’s main goal is to increase the legal charity and business predictability in the use of international contracts also wants to remove the legal obstacles to using electronic communications. Being a seventeenth state Tuvalu acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Use of... Read More
Summary: Arbitration is a quick and reasonable procedure for settling a commercial dispute. This is also a private procedure and out of the judiciary courts, Recently, Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) and Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC) jointly organized a program for International Commercial Arbitration. BIAC is the institution that works for arbitration mechanisms in Bangladesh. And CLDP, a section... Read More
Under the new Budget, shareholding percentage has been amended for amalgamation. Now shareholders holding at least 75% (previously 90%) of the value of shares in the amalgamating company (which now includes foreign companies, where there is foreign shareholding in a Bangladeshi company) become shareholders of the amalgamated company. Also, capital gain arising from any transfer of capital asset in a... Read More
Under the new Budget, shareholding percentage has been amended for amalgamation. Now shareholders holding at least 75% (previously 90%) of the value of shares in the amalgamating company (which now includes foreign companies, where there is foreign shareholding in a Bangladeshi company) become shareholders of the amalgamated company. Also, capital gain arising from any transfer of capital asset in a... Read More
Number of Complex construction disputes involving infrastructure projects is rising. Responsibility of the employer and the bidder and successful tenderer in conducting a pre-bid feasibility study of the project site is often confusing as the tender document often does not clearly address the issue. If a major flaw is found at later stages on the selection of site etc,... Read More
Summary: Brazil had signed the ‘Singapore Convention of Mediation’ on 4th June at the United Nations headquarters in New York. This Convention consists of the UNCITRAL Model Law and the key provisions lie in the first ten articles. Brazil is the fifty-fourth signing state of this multilateral treaty. Content: In the era of nascent International trade and investment, it was highly important to... Read More
