{"id":83809,"date":"2018-12-02T11:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T17:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=83809"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T22:22:54","slug":"is-19a-legally-enforceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/02\/is-19a-legally-enforceable\/","title":{"rendered":"IS 19A LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Ranil Wickremasinghe government did not follow the procedures laid down by the Supreme Court in regard to 19 Amendment to the Constitution. The inconsistent articles of the 19A were not placed before the public for a referendum as directed.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, several changes were made at the Committee stages, to by-pass or ignore the Supreme Court determinations.<\/p>\n<p>Jayampathy Wickremaratne\u2019s\u00a0 approach to by-pass the Supreme Court, is subtly analysed by Ken Adams, the U.S. contract drafting guru, seems to appreciate that  there is a certain efficiency to using the concept conveyed by <strong>mutatis mutandis<\/strong> as a simple means of incorporating from one agreement into another provisions that require simple adjustments to make them specifically applicable in the new agreement\u201d.\u00a0 But\u00a0 cunning Tamils persuaded UNP to include inconstant clauses, and subsequently approved by the Legislature. The Supreme Court is now in the box seat, inter-alia\u00a0 it may find that contempt of court by the then Sri Lankan Government.<\/p>\n<p>19A has made a mess just to satisfy Tamil Leaders.\u00a0 It would not be a surprise if the Supreme Court determine that the violation of\u00a0 its judgement\u00a0 by the Legislature by making the changes \u00a0without a referendum \u00a0renders all such subsequent\u00a0 changes null and void\u201d.\u00a0 That would make the Executive President somewhat more powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE The Ranil Wickremasinghe government did not follow the procedures laid down by the Supreme Court in regard to 19 Amendment to the Constitution. The inconsistent articles of the 19A were not placed before the public for a referendum as directed. Instead, several changes were made at the Committee stages, to [&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-83809","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\/83809","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=83809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}