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 […]

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  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය, නීතියේ පාලනය, අපක්ෂපාතීත්වය, විවෘතභාවය, වගවීම, යහපාලනය ගැන වර්තමානයේ විද්වත් සාකච්ඡාවක් ආරම්භ වී ඇත. මෙම කෙටි ලිපිය ලියවී ඇත්තේ ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නීතීඥ සංගමයේ සභාපතිවරයා සම්බන්ධයෙන්  සිඳුවිය යුතු නීති සංශෝධන වෙනුවෙනි.මෙය සභාපතිධූරයට පත්වීමට පෙර තමන් පෙනීසිටීමට බාරගෙන ඇති නඩු කටයුතුවලට අදාල නොවේ.) 1. සබඳතා අතර ගැටුම් අවම කිරීමට. […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo Commercial High Court has issued an order for the immediate suspension of the injunction order issued against the aircraft belonging to Russia’s Aeroflot Airlines, which has been detained at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).  On Thursday (June 02), the Commercial High Court of the Western Province issued an Enjoining Order on […]

Courtesy Adaderana The police have secured a court order against a protest march scheduled to be held tomorrow (June 04). As per the court order, the protesters are barred from entering York Street, Bank Street, or Chatham Street. The court order also says the protesters are not allowed to cause any inconvenience to the general […]

SC Application   FR 38 / 05 Supreme Court of Sri Lanka SC Application   FR 38 / 05 Interim Order to control Noise Pollution Delivered on November 9, 2007 The following Order was delivered by the Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva and Justices Shiranee Tilakawardena and A.M. Somawansa; Chief Justice Sarath N. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former IGP Pujitha Jayasundera had given a prior warning about the Easter Sunday attacks on Catholic Churches to four of the top police officers including DIG Western Police and to the DIG-in-charge of the STF, Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon said today before the trial-at-bar at the Colombo High Court. DIG Tennakoon […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Newly appointed Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission retired Supreme Court Justice Rohini Marasinghe has called for a meeting with the Director CID, Director TID and the head of the Police Legal Division today (29) to discuss cases of those who had been held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General today (December 17) informed the Supreme Court that affidavits filed by three ministers with regard to the Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions challenging the Yugadanavi Power Plant agreement are unconstitutional. The affidavits had been submitted by Ministers Vasudeva Nanayakkara, Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila. The petitions were called before Supreme Court’s […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has postponed the hearing of Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions challenging the Yugadanavi Power Plant agreement until 10.00 a.m. tomorrow (December 16). The applications were called before a five-judge bench consisting of Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya and Supreme Court Justices Buwaneka Aluvihare, Priyantha Jayawardena, Vijith Malalgoda and L.T.B. Dehideniya is taking […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court today ordered to acquit and release interdicted Magistrate Thilina Gamage from the case filed over the illegal possession of an elephant calf. Delivering the decision today, Colombo High Court Judge Damith Thotawatte stated that the prosecution has failed to prove the allegations against the defendant Thilina Gamage beyond a […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Court of Appeal has ordered Litro Gas Lanka Limited to brief the judge bench of the potential to display the composition on domestic gas cylinders by tomorrow (December 15). A writ application filed by public interest litigation activist Nagananda Kodituwakku seeking a court order directing Litro Gas Lanka and Laugfs Gas PLC, […]