LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images: A Demonstration in Colombo on November 4, 2018.
The U.S. and Japan have both paused their respective projects in Sri Lanka amid...
(Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe delivered the Sujata Jayawardena memorial oration 2015 at the BMICH on December 11.)
Here are excerpts:
“Let me first thank the Alumni...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday stated that the entire impeachment process against the Chief Justice 43 Ms Shirani Bandaranayaka by the then government of...
Dharisha Bastians ◾5-Judge bench overturns Appeals Court writ against PSC findings in Shirani B impeachment◾SC says Court of Appeal has no writ jurisdiction over Parliament◾Overturns...
Lawyers of the Commonwealth today passed a resolution on Sri Lanka at a special plenary session during the Commonwealth Law Conference in South Africa.The...
BASL launches brave struggle against attack on Judiciary - Editorial Daily MirrorThough the politicisation of the Supreme Court and Judiciary began in 1996 with...
Basil FernandoThe International Bar Association in the executive summary of their report entitled, 'A Crisis of Legitimacy' issued in March 2013 makes...
The BASL convocation ( photo - Sunday Times)Shirani Bandaranayake attended the Annual Convocation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka in Colombo on March...
The removal from office in Sri Lanka of Chief Justice Bandaranayake was unlawful, is undermining public confidence in the rule of law, and threatening...
Illustration: Andrew Dyson.Geoffrey RobertsonThe Commonwealth is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster, if it goes ahead with November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in...
Upul Jayasuriya, Attorney-at-Law and senior human rights lawyer, was elected as the new President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, in what lawyers...
Visiting Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for South Asia Alistair Burt said yesterday that his country would support the planned procedural resolution by the...
Sumanasiri LiyanageThere is an unusual and unexpected calmness in Hulftsdorp in the post-impeachment days in spite of the fact that all traditions and conventions...
Political friends?Sri Lanka's legal fraternity takes a stand for judicial independenceLawyers in Sri Lanka have boycotted the inauguration of the government's newly-appointed chief justice.Sri...
Faced with this unexpected resistance, the government withdrew the Act in April 2012.Three people were instrumental in impeding the Sacred Areas Act –...
Lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects and various other professionals this week slammed the impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake in a near unanimous vote saying she was...
The Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL)Today, senior judges and eminent jurists from around the world joined together, calling on the...
Bishop of Colombo Climate of fear and helplessness- Bishop of Colombo 'The numerous warnings that the Church, other religious organizations and civil society bodies ...
A female lawyer who has supported the impeached chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake has been strangled by a stranger on the road, Lawyers Collective member...
Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving. Despite early efforts that...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
