{"id":76296,"date":"2018-04-06T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76296"},"modified":"2018-04-06T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:09:38","slug":"can-ranil-be-still-prosecuted-yes-it-can-clarification-on-interpretation-by-aruna-laksiri-unawatuna-attorney-at-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/06\/can-ranil-be-still-prosecuted-yes-it-can-clarification-on-interpretation-by-aruna-laksiri-unawatuna-attorney-at-law\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN RANIL BE STILL PROSECUTED? YES\u00a0\u00a0IT CAN! CLARIFICATION ON INTERPRETATION BY ARUNA LAKSIRI UNAWATUNA, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><b>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>\u00a0<\/b>Reading the Constitution in its totality and in conjunction with the fundamental rights of members of parliament, the Chapter III (6) on FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS states: &#8221; No person shall be held guilty of an offence on account of any act or omission which did not, at the time of such act or omission, constitute such an offence and no penalty shall be imposed for any offence more severe than the penalty in force at the time such offence was committed. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>In the continuation para of the same Chapter III (6) explicitly exclude any misrepresentation of the first part of the Chapter III (6) by providing a specific interpretation, which states : Nothing in this Article shall prejudice the trial and punishment of any person for any act or omission which,\u00a0<b>at the time when it was committed, was criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to institute legal actions against Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe by a future government, is\u00a0\u00a0still wide open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE \u00a0Reading the Constitution in its totality and in conjunction with the fundamental rights of members of parliament, the Chapter III (6) on FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS states: &#8221; No person shall be held guilty of an offence on account of any act or omission which did not, at the time of such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}