ABSTRACT
In the almost four decades since Bangladesh became an independent nation, through periods of continuing transition, from immediate post-war aftermath through parliamentary to presidential to outright military rule and back again, the supreme court has repeatedly been the focus of public attention, providing a forum not only for redress of rights against a repressive state,but carving out,with greater or lesser caution, parameters for determining relations between the state and political parties and,more recently,the duties and obligations of the state to the people at large and to the public interest.
