Courtesy Adaderana State Minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation Lohan Ratwatte emphasizing on the present congestion in prisons given the rising numbers of inmates, stated that the government is looking to reduce the number at least by 8,000.  He stated this addressing the inaugural meeting of the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Justice chaired by […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Daily News Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The judicial cadre in both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal had been static since 1978 Colombo, December 4: There is a popular saying that Justice delayed is justice denied” and apparently a major reason for last week’s prison riots that claimed the lives of 11 prisoners […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera has submitted a note of clarification to Singapore today (04), regarding the request to extradite former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran. State Counsel Nishara Jayarante, the Coordination Officer of the Attorney General stated that the Secretary to the Ministry of Justice has been informed of the clarification note. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has instructed the IGP to take immediate steps due to Covid-19 to develop an action plan and implement directions to release prisoners on bail by Monday, in order to reduce prison overcrowding. The AG’s coordinating officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne stated that the Attorney General had issued instructions to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed Justice Arjuna Obeysekara as new the President of the Court of Appeal. Marking a new milestone in the judicial system of the country, 21 new Judges to superior courts were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Six new Judges to the Supreme Court and 14 new Judges to […]

By Kamal Mahendra Weeraratne Courtesy Ceylon Today A landmark judgment by the Court of Appeal on Thursday (19), became the hot topic of this week. That was none other than the verdict which acquitted Lalith Weeratunga, former Secretary to President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Anusha Palpita former Director-General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) from the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorneys-at-Law and other parties from curfew-imposed areas have been requested to refrain from entering the Supreme Court premises at the Superior Court Complex in Hulftsdorp. The Registrar of the Supreme Court, Pradeep Mahamutugala communicated the decision in a notice. Accordingly, the aforementioned parties have been advised not to enter the Supreme Court premises […]

Courtesy Hiru News Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage today (13) informed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that a court warrant is not required to arrest a person on charges under the Public Property Act. The Cour stated the above was rejecting a request by the CID to issue a warrant for the arrest of three suspects, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General met with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)’s Deputy Inspector General (DIG) and officers today (12). This is as the Attorney General summoned the DIG in charge of the CID and its Chief Investigating Officer over the release of Riyaj Bathiudeen, brother of MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who was recently released after […]

Courtesy Hiru News Attorney General informs Acting IGP that stalling investigations in the case of Riyadh Bathiudeen by the CID is unjustified.

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (2020.10.11) ලිපිය දීර්ඝ වීම වැළැක්වීම සදහා විසිවන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පතේ 14 වන වගන්තිය (70 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාව) ඇසුරෙන් පමණක් විග්‍රහ කරමින් මෙම ලිපිය ලියා ඇති අතර අනෙක් ව්‍යවස්ථා 3 අදාලවත් අවස්ථානුගතව එය අදාල කරගත හැකිය. මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස 2015 ජනවාරි 08 තේරීපත් වීමෙන් පසු රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයා ලෙස පත්කර […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Daily Express Courtesy NewsIn.Asia But the court has said that fundamental rights petitions can be filed against the Attorney General, in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by the President in his official capacity.” Colombo, October 11 (newsin.asia): In the determination on the 20th Constitution Amendment Bill leaked to the Sunday Times, the […]

නීතිඥ  අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col),  මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා 33.2.(ඈ) අනුව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව 2018 නොවැම්බර් මස 09 වැනි දින අංක 2096/70 දරන අතිවිශේෂ ගැසට් පත‍්‍රය මගින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවාහැරි අවස්ථාවේ  ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය 2018.12.13 දින තීන්දු (Judgement) කරන ලද්දේ 70.1 ව්‍යවස්ථව අනුව වසර 4 1/2 ක් යන තෙක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීමට නොහැකි බවයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා වසර 4 1/2  කට පෙර පාර්ලිමේන්තුව […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General has assigned Additional Prosecutors to the Homagama, Kalutara, Matara and Negombo High Courts having considered the large number of cases pending in each High Court, AG’s Coordinating Officer State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said. She said over 600 cases are pending in these courts.  

Courtesy Hiru News The Supreme Court today rejected a request to summon copies of evidence and documents summoned before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter attack. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka and Attorney-at-Law Moditha Ekanayake yesterday requested that the relevant transcripts be summoned to the Supreme Court for use in the case. […]

Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror While claiming that the Attorney General had no power to decide on Premalal Jayasekara attending Parliament sittings, Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara said today it should be decided by the Speaker and Parliament. He told a news conference that the AG can only appear in court on behalf of the plaintiff. […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන (2020.08.23 දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහයෙහි නීතිඥ කසුන් පොන්නම්පෙරුම ලියා ඇති ’19 පෙරලන් 20 වැනි සංශෝධනය එන හැටි‘ ලිපියට පිළිතුරකි.) නීතිඥ කසුන් පොන්නම්පෙරුම පසුගිය දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහයට ලියා ඇති ’19 පෙරලන් 20 වැනි සංශෝධනය එන හැටි’ ලිපිය කියවීමේදී දිවයින පාඨකයන්‍ට අදහස් වන්නේ 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ඉවත් කිරීමට 20වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනය ගෙන […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Justice, President’s Counsel Ali Sabry says the establishment of a separate court to hear cases pertaining to child abuse has been brought to the notice of the government. He made these remarks addressing an event held in Colombo. Minister Ali Sabry further insisted on eradicating crimes against children. In the meantime, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Attorney General  & Prosecutors met with United Nations Office On Drugs & Crime (UNODC) Country Chief & UN Maritime Expert on International Drug Trafficking Organized Crime & Terrorism & had effective discussions on legal issues affecting the region.

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island A smiling Sabry holds his mother after addressing the media at the Justice Ministry (pic by Shamindra Ferdinando) Justice Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (17) said that four state institutions––the Police, Prisons, Government Analyst’s Department and the Registrars of Courts––were so corrupt that the country faced a daunting challenge to […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ උත්තරීතර නීතිය ලෙස සැළකෙන්නේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවයි.  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ඩොමීනියන් තත්ත්වය ප්‍රදානය කිරීමත් සමඟ ඊට අවශ්‍ය ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා පද්ධතියක් ද ‘පරිත්‍යාග කිරීමට’ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය පාලකයෝ ත්‍යාගශීලී වූයේ ඇයිද? යන්න විසදීමට කාලයක් ගතවීම මෙරට ජනතාවට බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයන්ම ලබාදුන් අධ්‍යාපනයේ ස්වභාවය හේතුවන්නට ඇත. එහෙත් තම අසල්වැසියා (ඉන්දියාව) අනුව යමින් එම ඩොමීනියන් […]

අගමැති සතු බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්‍ය ධුූරය ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දැරිය යුතු බවට පෙත්සමක්”

Courtesy Hiru News A tensed situation was witnessed today at the Presidential Commission Inquiring into political revenge and victimization. This was regarding an interview given by former Solicitor General Suhada Gamlath to a weekend newspaper regarding the legal status of the M V Mahanuwara vessel of Avant Garde. Former Senior Additional Solicitor General Wasantha Navaratne […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Attorney General has informed the Health Ministry Secretary that the draft circular instructions for Public Health Inspectors to control the Covid-19 during elections are contrary to the law, says the AG’s coordinating officer. According to the AG, powers of the PHIs to enter premises of meetings, polling stations, to detain and […]

Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera has advised the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) to carry out further comprehensive investigations into the demolition of the 13-century building in Kurunegala. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General, State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said this instruction was given after consultation with the Police and the Director […]

Courtesy Adaderana Fort Magistrate has ordered former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) at 9.00 am on the 27th of July. The All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) leader will be recording a statement on Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019. According to reports, he had been issued notices on two […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Court of Appeal today rejected the petition filed seeking the arrest of former deputy minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, over his recent controversial statement on the killing of Sri Lankan army soldiers. The decision was delivered by a judge bench comprising President of Court of Appeal Justice A.H.M.D Nawaz and Sobitha […]

Lakmal Sooriyagoda Courtesy The Daily News President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva appearing for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed Court of Appeal that summons issued by Jaffna Magistrate’s Court requiring President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appear before Jaffna Magistrate’s Court as a witness in connection with the Habeas Corpus inquiry into the disappearance of two human rights activists […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General Dappula De Livera has returned another 38 ‘incomplete’ investigation files on suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks, to the Acting IGP C. D. Wickramaratne. On June 26, the Attorney General had returned 40 incomplete investigations files, pertaining to the suspects arrested in relation to the Easter […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Attorney General’s Department yesterday informed Supreme Court that it would raise preliminary objections against the Fundamental Rights petition filed seeking an order to immediately arrest Former LTTE commander and armed group leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias ‘Karuna Amman’ over a controversial statement he made recently. Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara appearing […]