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Sunday, February 12th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has filed a revision application before the Colombo High Court seeking the nullification of the order issued by the Colombo Chief Magistrate to release the Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) convenor Wasantha Mudalige from charges under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Mudalige was arrested on 22 August 2022, on charges […]
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General (AG) has informed the Court of Appeal that the Cabinet of Ministers has decided not to implement the recommendations of the Political Victimisation Commission, which was chaired by former Justice Upali Abeyratne. AG Sanjay Rajaratnam had informed the court of this, when the petitions filed by a group of individuals […]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
“නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” ෆීනික්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණ, දිසා අධිකරණ, මහාධිකරණ, වාණිජ මහාධිකරණ, සුලු හිමිකම් අධිකරණ මුල් අවස්ථා අධිකරණ ලෙස හැදින්වේ. රටේ පවතින නඩු වලින් වැඩිම නඩු සංඛ්යාවක් කැදවෙන්නේ මෙම අධිකරණවලය. ජනතාව වැඩි වශයෙන් නීතියේ පිළිසරණ පතා එන්නේත්, වැඩි සේවකයන් සංඛ්යාවක් ඉන්නේත් මෙම අධිකරණ වලය. මෙම අධිකරණවල සේවකයන් සමබන්ධ තීරණ ගනු ලබන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa has requested the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the action of Colombo Additional Magistrate Tharanga Mahawatte who had offered food to a suspect. This was mentioned by the Minister in response to MP Premanath Dollawatte and others who wanted action against the magistrate. It is the […]
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
උපුටා ගැන්ම හිරු පුවත් ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත යටතේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් අන්තර් විශ්වවිද්යාලයීය ශිෂ්ය බලමණ්ඩලයේ කැඳවුම්කරු වසන්ත මුදලිගේ ලබන 31 වැනිදා දක්වා තවදුරටත් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට කොළඹ ප්රධාන මහේස්ත්රාත් ප්රසන්න අල්විස් මහතා නියෝග කළා. එදින සැකකරුගේ ඇප ඉල්ලීම පිළිබඳ නියෝගය ප්රකාශයට පත් කරන බවයි විනිසුරුවරයා සඳහන් කළේ. එම ඇප ඉල්ලීමට අදාළ ලිඛිත දේශන තිබේනම් ඒවා ලබන […]
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Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Supreme Court today ordered former President Maithripala Sirisena to pay a sum of Rs.100 million as damages to the victims of Easter Sunday attacks. Former IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former SIS director Nilantha Jayawardhane were ordered to pay Rs.75 million each as compensation. Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando was ordered […]
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Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today ordered the CID to expeditiously obtain relevant documents pertaining to State Minister Diana Gamage’s alleged citizenship issue from the British High Commission in order to carry out a comprehensive investigation. Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis observed that it would not be appropriate to issue orders […]
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Thursday, December 29th, 2022
“නීතියේ සිංහල නුගමුල” එක්තරා අභියාචනා අධිකරණයක අභියාචනා නඩුවක් විභාග වෙමින් පැවති අතර, දෙපාර්ශවයේ නීතීඥවරු සහ විනිසුරුතුමන්ලා ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් අභියාචනය විමසමින් සිටියේය. අභියාචකගේ නීතීඥවරයා දීර්ඝ වේලාවක් අධිකරණය අමතමින් සිටි අතර විනිසුරුතුමන්ලාගේ දෙනෙත් එක්වරම සේවාදායකයන් අසුන්ගන්නා පෙදෙස වෙත යොමු විය. සේවාදායකයන් අතරින් එක් අයෙක් අතක් ඔසවාගෙන නැගී සිටිනවා විනිසුරුතුමන්ලාගේ අවධානයට යොමු වී තිබුණි. එක් විනිසුරුවරයෙක් සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Discussions are underway to establish a new commercial high court within the jurisdiction of the Colombo Port City, President Ranil Wickremesinghe says. He made this remark addressing an event organized by the Colombo High Court Lawyers’ Association in view of its 25th anniversary. The event was held on Dec. 19.
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Friday, November 25th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana A private plaint filed against Colombo SSP Roshan Dias and ASP Nalin Dilruk, for allegedly blocking a peaceful protest on October 10, was dismissed by Colombo Fort Magistrate today. The complainant accused the two police officers of putting up barricades to block the demonstration. The private plaint, filed by media activist Tharindu Jayawardena, […]
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Thursday, November 17th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Civil Appellate High Court of Mount Lavinia today (Nov. 17) ordered National Sports Council chairman Arjuna Ranatunga to pay a compensation of Rs. 25 million to former president of the national cricket board Thilanga Sumathipala. The order was issued with regard to a defamation case filed by the former Sri Lanka Cricket […]
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
By CANDACE SUTTON and STEPHEN GIBBS FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Courtesy MailOnline Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka charged over alleged sexual assault Injured star was preparing to leave Sydney when arrested at team’s CBD hotel Gunathilaka has been moved to Parklea jail in western Sydney on remand 31-year-old arrested in luxury city hotel early on Sunday and handcuffed […]
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Monday, November 7th, 2022
ෆීනික්ස් නීති සඟරාව. වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන. සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් නීති අධ්යාපනය සහ නීති විභාග පැවැත්වීම වළක්වා ඇති අලි සබ්රිගේ ගැසට් පත්රයට එරෙහිව ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිට කළ ඉල්ලීමට අනුව ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය අධිකරණ අමාත්යාංශයට යොමු කළ ලිපියට කුමක් වීද? සිංහල භාෂාව රාජ්ය භාෂාව බවට 1972 ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව මගින් පත්කර තිබුණි. ඒ අනුව […]
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Monday, October 31st, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today ordered Ven. Uduwe Dhammaloka Thera to use loudspeakers without causing an annoyance and disturbance to the residents around Alan Mathiniyaramaya Temple in Polhengoda. The Court made this order consequent to a private plaint filed by six parties including Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India Milinda […]
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Friday, October 28th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Court of Appeal today upheld the death sentence imposed against the accused who committed the murder of his fellow junior student Selvanayagam Varapragash who was an Engineering Faculty student at Peradeniya University in 1997. However, the main accused Balendran Prasad Sadeeskaran was never served with summons during the trial as […]
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
By Ceylon Today Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has requested Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena to appoint a Special Parliamentary Select Committee to probe the statement made by Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) MP M.A. Sumanthiran regarding the Supreme Court during the debate on the 22nd Amendment Bill on 20 October. In a letter to the […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2022
උපුටාගැණීම අද දෙරණ “the morning” ඉංග්රීසි පුවත්පතේ වාර්තාවක් මගින් තම වරප්රසාද කඩවී ඇති නිසා ඒ පිළිබඳ පරීක්ෂණයක් පවත්වන්නැයි අධිකරණ අමාත්ය විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා කථානායකවරයාගෙන් කළ ඉල්ලීම සත්ය සඟවමින් කළ ප්රකාශයක් බව තරුණ ජනමාධ්යවේදීන්ගේ සංගමය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි. එම සංගමය අධිකරණ අමාත්යවරයා වෙත සහ ජනමාධ්ය වෙත නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ, පාර්ලිමේන්තු වරප්රසාදවලට මුවා වී අමාත්යවරයා පසුගිය 21 වෙනිදා පර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සිදුකළ එම […]
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Monday, October 24th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana President Ranil Wickremesinghe has pardoned 08 Tamil prisoners including 03 accused of attempting to assassinate former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga who had consented to their release, the President’s Media Division (PMD) reported. According to Article 34 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka, the President Ranil Wickremesinghe has granted amnesty to eight Tamil prisoners […]
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Monday, October 17th, 2022
නීතියේ සිංහල නුග මුල “ෆීනික්ස් නීති සඟරාව” නීතීඥවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමේ පෙත්සමක් (COC/0011/22) එස්. පී. ජයතුංග මහතා විසින් අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇත. එස්. පී. ජයතුංග මහතා වෘත්තීයෙන් නීතිඥවරයෙක්ද වෙයි. එම නඩුවට පදනම් වී ඇත්තේ අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇති රිට් ආඥා නඩුවක පෙනී සිටීමේ ලේඛනයේ පෙනී සිටින නීතිඥවරුන්ගේ නම් සටහන් කර එම නඩුව කැදවූ අවස්ථාවේ […]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Judiciary Refer statements made by Nivad above, in his defence makes interesting reading 22. The 7th Respondent states that the decision to default on 12th April 2022 was highly suspicious, irrational, arbitrary, illegal, and wrongful and it is inexplicable that it had been hastily carried out in view of the fact that, by end March […]
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Saturday, July 23rd, 2022
හිරාන් කුරේ නඩත්තු නඩුවට ඇවිත් සැමියා දෙන රු10000/- න් ගෑණු මනුස්සයාගෙන් රු 2000/- ක් ගාස්තු ලෙස ගන්නත්, පොලිසිය හරහා අර මහත්තයා අල්ලන්න..ඇප ගන්නනම් කියලා visiting card එක දීගන්නටත්, දික්කසාද නඩුවේ නියත තීන්දුවේ සහතික පිටපත උසාවියෙන් අරන් දෙන්න රු 5000/- ක් ගැනීමටත්, කුඩු නඩුවේ මිනිහගෙ නඩුවට පෙනී ඉඳලා ගාස්තුවට හරි යන්න ගෑණිගේ කරාඹු ජෝඩුව […]
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2022
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A Fundamental Rights petition filed challenging the legality of the appointment of UNP leader Ranil Wickremasinghe as a Member of Parliament was Today dismissed by Supreme Court. Supreme Court three-judge-bench comprising Justices Gamini Amarasekara, Shiran Goonaratne and Janak de Silva refused to grant leave to proceed with this petition taking into […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Commercial High Court has dismissed the case filed by an Irish company against Russia’s Aeroflot airline with costs, Ada Derana correspondent says. The verdict was delivered by Colombo Commercial HC Judge Sumith Perera when the case was taken up this morning.
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Friday, July 1st, 2022
Courtesy The Island AG, CJ asked to take action against lawyer for triggering violence The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has declared that a false allegation by President of the Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) Attorney-at-Law Senaka Perera that some prisoners were used to attack anti-government protesters outside Temple Trees and […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has rejected granting leave to proceed with the five fundamental rights (FR) petitions challenging the appointment of business magnate Dhammika Perera as a Member of Parliament. The petitions were taken up by a three-judge bench comprising Justices Priyantha Jayawardena, Yasantha Kodagoda and Arjuna Obeysekera. Delivering the verdict, Justice Priyantha Jayawardena, […]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has determined that some clauses in amendments proposed by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) for the 21st Amendment to the Constitution require a referendum and need to be passed in the parliament with a special majority. Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena today (June 21) conveyed the Supreme Court’s determination […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2022
මාධ්ය අංශය, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන (ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ලබ දෙන ලෙස ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ සහ විපක්ෂයේ මන්ත්රීවරුන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවිවාදයක් අවස්ථාවේදී 2021.08.17 දින කථානායකවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටි අතර, එකී ඉල්ලීම ඉටු කිරීමට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට නොහැකි විය. ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන නීති අධ්යයනයක් කළ අතර ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් ලබා නොදීම හේතුවෙන් සමාජයට, ජනතාවට […]
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Monday, June 13th, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1) Registrar is directed to convey this enjoining order to the Head of Air Navigation Services, the 2nd defendent. 2) Registrar is directed to inform the Chief Trafic Controller by telephone and serve through the Fiscal also. ඉහත නියෝග 2 කොළඹ වාණිජ මහාධිකරණය විසින් CHC/126/22/MR නඩුවේදී එරොෆ්ලොට් රුසියන් එයර්ලයින් වෙත […]
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Sunday, June 12th, 2022
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) What does the Russian embassy say about the law in the aeroflot plane case which One in Sinhala and another in English? Что говорит российское посольство о законе в деле самолета Аэрофлота, один на сингальском, другой на английском? රුසියන් ගුවන් යානා තහනමේදී සිංහලෙන් එකක් කියා ඉංග්රීසියෙන් වෙන එකක් […]
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Saturday, June 11th, 2022
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) yesterday (10) said that it couldn’t report the lawyer involved in the Aeroflot affair to the Supreme Court, without inquiring into the incident.It transpired, before High Court Judge, S. M. H. S.P. Sethunge, in the Commercial High Court of the Western Province, […]
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