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Sunday, October 11th, 2020
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 […]
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Sunday, October 11th, 2020
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 […]
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Sunday, September 6th, 2020
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 […]
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
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.
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2020
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. […]
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Monday, August 31st, 2020
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. […]
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Monday, August 24th, 2020
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 […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
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, […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2020
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.
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Friday, August 21st, 2020
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 […]
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Thursday, August 20th, 2020
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 […]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2020
අගමැති සතු බුද්ධ ශාසන අමාත්ය ධුූරය ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් දැරිය යුතු බවට පෙත්සමක්”
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Thursday, August 13th, 2020
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 […]
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Saturday, July 25th, 2020
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 […]
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
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 […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
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 […]
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
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 […]
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
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 […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
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 […]
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Friday, July 3rd, 2020
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 […]
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has approved the health guidelines for the upcoming 2020 General Election forwarded by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health had prepared the set of guidelines last month and they were sent to the Attorney General for approval. The gazette notification on the health guidelines pertaining to the general […]
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Friday, June 26th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Attorney General Dappula de Livera has returned 40 incomplete investigations files, pertaining to the suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday terror attacks, to the Acting Inspector General of Police. The Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General said the Acting IGP was also instructed to conclude the investigations properly.
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Monday, June 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has informed the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on political victimization that the process cannot be issued on his officers in terms of Section 16 of the Act.
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Saturday, June 20th, 2020
Media Unit, Dr Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Law Education Programme, A preliminary objection has been taken under Section 39 of the Judicature Act that a rent case filed in the District Court of Colombo has no jurisdiction for the case to proceed. The inquiry regarding the preliminary objection was held by way of written submissions […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2020
මාධ්ය අංශය, වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යයන වැඩසටහන, දිසා අධිකරණයට ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කරන නඩු තීන්දු සහ ලේඛනවල පරිවර්තන සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ලබා දිය යුතුද? නියෝගය ජූලි 15 ට කල් යයි…! කොළඹ දිසා අධිකරණයේ පවරා ඇති ගෙවල් කුලී නඩුවක එම නඩුව පවත්වාගෙන යාමට අධිකරණ බලය නොමැති බවට අධිකරණ සංවිධාන පනතේ 39වන වගන්තිය යටතේ මූලික […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2020
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Attorney General Dappula de Livera said today the prisons have become the playgrounds of criminals and pointed out that the prison department lacked honest and efficient officers. He said this when addressing prison officers at the Welikada Prison and claimed that a majority of the jailers were addicted to […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2020
හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි 15.06.2020 ගරු නීතීපති තුමනි, ශ්රී ලංකාව තුල, ව්යවස්ථානුකුලව සම්මත කර නැති, නීතියක් වී නැති 19 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත, නීතියක් ලෙස සලකා විධායකයත්, විධායකයේ ආයතනත්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවත් කටයුතු කරමින් සිටි. විධායකයේ ආයතනයක් වන නීතිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවද ජනතාවගේ නිත්යානුකුලව ජීවත්වීමේ පරම අයිතිය නොසලකා නීතියක් වී නැති 19 වන ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත නිතිය ලෙස සලකා කටයුතු […]
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Monday, May 25th, 2020
Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), AAL 1.) The 19th Amendment Bill was first presented to the Parliament in 2002 by amending Article 70 of the Constitution to remove the power of the President to dissolve the Parliament one year later. 2.) Seven Supreme Court judges unanimously decided on the 2002 bill, amending the 70th Article […]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2020
නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1.) ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 70වන ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කරමින්, වසරකට පසු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවීමට ජනාධිපතිවරයාට තිබූ බලය ඉවත් කිරීමට 19වන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත මුල් වරට වර්ෂ 2002 දීපාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර තිබූණි. 2) එකී 2002 ඉදිරිපත් කළ පනත් කෙටුම්පත සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරු 7දෙනෙක් ඒකමතිකව “තීරණයක්” (Determination) ලබා දෙමින්, එකී සංශෝධනය එනම් […]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2020
Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that IGP Pujith Jayasundara and DIG Nalaka Silva have advised to stop the operation to arrest Saharan Hashim in connection with a clash in 2017 between two churches in Kattankudy area. OIC of the Negombo Division’s Intelligence Unit at the time of the attack gives evidence This was […]
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