Category: Legal

Aug 27, 2009 (LBO) – A case where Sri Lanka’s former Treasury Secretary is seeking permission to return to public service from which he was ousted by court, will be taken up before an expanded bench, lawyers said. Gamini Amaratunga, a serving judge was a part of the bench that delivered the original judgement on […]

Aug 16, 2009 (LBO) – The directors of two failed property firm in Sri Lanka’s troubled Ceylinco group has been given court nod to have a board meeting in prison to approve the setting up of a trust to repay investors, a media report said. Directors of F & G Property Developer (Pvt) Ltd, and […]

Aug 03, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s former Treasury chief P B Jayasundera is to file a confidential affidavit in an application to release him from an undertaking given to Supreme Court not to hold public office, lawyers said.The bar on public office came following an order to reverse the sale of land and a […]

Aug 03, 2009 (LBO) – Several applications asking to vary orders made following a landmark judgment which reversed a transfer of state land to build a golf course were refused by Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, lawyers said.Court was also asked to award compensation by others who had bought land in a related project. The next […]

July 28, 2009 (AFP) – Sri Lanka has banned students from taking mobile phones to school following the suicide of a teenager disciplined for using her telephone, an education ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.All schools were ordered to impose the ban after a 14-year-old girl — reprimanded over telephone contact with a boy during school […]

July 25, 2009 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan court has ordered a dozen websites to be blocked for allegedly containing pornographic material involving local women and children, a press report said Saturday.The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) was asked to block access to the 12 websites, including redtube.com, an adult-content sharing portal, the Lankadeepa newspaper said. […]

July 18, 2009 (AFP) – French charity Action Against Hunger (ACF) on Saturday demanded an international probe into the massacre of 17 of its Sri Lankan employees after a government investigation failed to identify suspects. The ACF in a statement accused the Sri Lankan authorities of lacking the will to find those responsible for the […]

July 11, 2009 (LBO) – A high profile opposition lawmaker has been charged under Sri Lanka’s exchange control laws for assisting a foreign investor to deposit three million US dollars in a private bank, a media report said.UNP lawmaker Ravi Karunayake has been indicted with violating exchange control laws by helping deposit the money in […]

July 10, 2009 (LBO) – An international lawyer’s group has welcome recent comments by Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Chief Justice Ashoka de Silva, who said he would reform a key body which runs key sections of the country’s judicial system. Sri Lanka’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) a three-member body which is chaired by the Chief […]

July 09, 2009 (LBO) – A former Sri Lankan Treasury secretary, P B Jayasundara, who was removed by the Supreme Court, might return to his old job if he is allowed to by a new bench, a senior minister said. Court said conglomerate John Keells Holdings (JKH) which bought the ship fuel business had secured […]

July 08, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court is to hear fresh arguments from petitioners seeking to revise a judgement last year that reversed a controversial transfer of state land to a private developer in a landmark case. Counsel for another group that had bought land in the property development project said they had […]

July 05, 2009 (LBO) – Fresh attempts by Sri Lanka’s government to muzzle the press and block the freedom speech of the people through a draconian law will hurt the economy and corporate sector, a senior lawmaker and commentators have warned. “This archaic law’s provisions effectively ban the reporting of matters as sweeping as those […]