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The concept of registration of persons and issuing identity cards was the subject of an agreement made between India and Sri Lanka in 1954, The draft bill submitted to the Sri Lankan parliament in 1962 was passed as the Act of Registration of Persons No. 32 of 1968. With the aim of activating the provisions of this Act, the Department of ...
The ICJ is vested with the power to make its own rules. Court procedure is set out in the Rules of Court of the International Court of Justice 1978 (as amended on 29 September 2005). [27] Cases before the ICJ will follow a standard pattern.
The Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) were established by the Criminal Justice Commission Act No 14 of 1972, [1] to serve as both a public inquiry and a tribunal to pass sentence.
Judges sitting ad hoc on the International Court of Justice, as of 22 July 2010 [1] Judge Nationality Appointing State Case(s) including parties and years of initiation to deposition Georges Abi-Saab Egypt Mali: Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali) 1983–1986 Adetokunbo Ademola Nigeria Ethiopia: South West Africa (Ethiopia v.
In July 2006 a Sri Lankan American expatriate organisation, the Sri Lankan Patriots, called on the Tamil Tigers to be prosecuted for using child soldiers. [82] Some Tamils have also called for government members to be prosecuted before the court for an alleged attack on a girls' school in LTTE-controlled territory in August 2006. [83]
Seal of the International Court of Justice The list of International Court of Justice cases includes contentious cases and advisory opinions brought to the International Court of Justice since its creation in 1946. Forming a key part of international law, 196 cases have been entered onto the General List for consideration before the court. The jurisdiction of the ICJ is limited. Only states ...
The Statute is divided into 5 chapters and consists of 70 articles. The Statute begins with Article 1 proclaiming: "The international Court of Justice established by the Charter of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the present Statute."
The Ministry of Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional Reforms [2] [a] is the cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for the implementation of policies, plans and programmes for the administration of the country's justice system, and thereby administers its courts and prisons.