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Original manuscripts are invited from scholars of home and abroad to be published in the Journal section of this website. The papers should address broad areas of laws relating to Bangladesh specially Constitutional Law, International Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Environmental Law, Media Law, Cyber Law, Administrative, Commercial Law etc. Besides, issues of international importance can also be submitted. Please submit your paper at info@clcbd.org The Guideline for submission of papers should be followed and the Editors retains all rights to edit/modify the papers and have absolute right to decide whether a paper shall be published or not. Papers not selected for publication shall not be returned.

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A. Overall General Guidelines:

All papers submitted must be followed by References.

Use endnote, not footnote.

Use ‘justify’ alignment always and do not use ‘Tab’ button of keyboard.

Font [Verdana]

For body of the text: Font size [10]

For Endnote: Font size [9]

Use of Quotation:

Single line quotations should be used as a continuation of sentence with inverted commas.

For example-

Charles Dickens in one of his celebrated writing claimed that “in the vast sea of precedent the lawyers are sinking.”

In case of using quotations of more that thirty (30) words or three lines, use .5 indenting from both sides of the page.

For example-

In the case of Bandhu Mukti Morcha Vs. Union of India, (1984) 3 SCC 161, the former Chief Justice of India P.N. Bhagwati observed:

“Where one of the parties to a litigation belongs to a poor and deprived section of the community, and does not possess adequate social and material resources, he is bound to be at a disadvantage as against a strong and powerful opponent under the ‘adversary system of justice’ because of his difficulty in getting competent legal representation, and more than anything else, his ability to produce relevant evidence before the Court.”

In case of using a quotation from a middle of a sentence or to avoid unnecessary words, use an ellipsis (…) and also in case of giving emphasis on particular words or lines, underlines should be used and at the end of the paragraph “emphasis added” should be written.

For example-

One prominent scholar observed that-

B. Specific General Guidelines:

While refereeing different resources, please follow the following guidelines-

1. Book References:

Author name(s) [last name, First name (with designation, if any), other names], full title, year of publication, edition, publisher, place of publication, page (s) no. and (if possible ISBN No.).

For example-

Narayanan, P.; Patent Law, 2006, Fourth Edition, Eastern Law House, Kolkata, p. 22, ISBN 81-7171-178-5.

Ahmad, Ishrat Azim and Karim, Md. Ershadul; Principles of Civil Litigation: Bangladesh Perspective, 2006, First Edition, Law Lyceum, Dhaka, p. 64, ISBN- 984-32-3275-5. [In case of more than one pages, use inclusive page numbers i.e. pp. 22-28.

In this process while using reference from a Chapter use specific page number of reference. For example, For detail, see, History of Patent Law in India in pp. 22-46 at p. 33]

2. Edited Book

In case of Edited book, the word “ed.” or “eds.” should be used.

For example-

Ahmad, Ishrat Azim and Karim, Md. Ershadul (eds); Principles of Civil Litigation: Bangladesh Perspective, 2006, First Edition, Law Lyceum, Dhaka, p. 64, ISBN- 984-32-3275-5.

In case of articles/chapters in edited book the following style should be followed-

Ahmed, Justice Naimuddin ‘Law of Preventive Detention in Bangladesh’ in Hossain, Sara, Malik, Shahdeen & Musa, Bushra (eds), Public Interest Litigation In South Asia: Right in Search of Remedies, 1997, the University Press Limited, Dhaka, pp. 103-122, ISBN- 984 05 1391 5.

3. Journal References:

Author name(s) [last name, First name (with designation, if any), other names], full title, journal title, volume and issue numbers and year of publication, and inclusive page numbers. In case of more than one authours, in referring the names of the authours, similar style as books should be followed.

For example-

Khair, Dr. Sumaiya; Alternative Dispute Resolution: How it works in Bangladesh, the Dhaka University Studies, Part-F, Vol. 15, Number 1, June, 2004, pp. 119-132,

4. Legislation:

In any Act of Parliament or Regulation, and in any rule, bye-law, instrument or document, made under, or with reference to, any such Act or Regulation, any enactment may be cited by reference to the short title or Bengali translation there of conferred thereon or by reference to the number and year thereof, and any provision in an enactment may be cited by reference to the section or sub-section of the enactment in which the provision is contained. [section 28(1) of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (Act No. X of 1897)]

For example-

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (V of 1898)

The Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860) not simply Penal Code or P.C. or PC. But writing PC or P.C./ Cr.P.C./ CPC in case of referring provisions of a law will be acceptable.

For example-

section 302 PC/ section 497 Cr.P.C./ section 11 CPC. Use the full word while referring section/ sub-section/ rule/ sub-rule/ article/ clause/ sub- clause/ Schedule/ Part. Using s. for section [s. 35 PC] or ss. for sections [ss. 96-102 CPC] or r. for Rule [r. 2 of Rules of Procedure] or art. for Article [art. 32 of BD Constitution] are not particularly encouraged.

5. Case References: