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The Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka was a 2011 report produced by a panel of experts appointed by United Nations Secretary-General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon to advise him on the issue of accountability with regard to any alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War. [1]
The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of legal systems of Roman-Dutch law , English law , Kandian law , Thesavalamai and Muslim law .
The Law & Society Trust (LST) is a not-for-profit organisation engaged in legal research, advocacy and human rights documentation and it's headquartered at No.102/3, Barns Place, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka. LST was founded in 1982 by the late Dr Neelan Tiruchelvam under the Trusts Ordinance.
Penal Code of Sri Lanka (Sections 1 to 490) Chapter Sections Covered Classification of offences CHAPTER I 1 -4 CHAPTER II 5 - 51 GENERAL EXPLANATIONS CHAPTER III 52 - 68 OF PUNISHMENTS CHAPTER IV 69 - 99 GENERAL EXCEPTIONS, OF THE RIGHT OF PRIVATE DEFENCE CHAPTER V 100 - 113 OF ABETMENT CHAPTER V A 113A - 113B OF CONSPIRACY CHAPTER VI 114 - 127
The law is part of conditions Sri Lanka has to fulfill to take forward a $2.9 billion program with the IMF after its economy crumpled under the worst financial crisis in decades, caused by a ...
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COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's lawmakers on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate online content, the speaker of the parliament announced, a law which opposition politicians and activists allege ...
The 20th Amendment was a frequent political objective of the ruling party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and a core campaign objective of the Gotabaya Rajapaksa administration, which recorded landslide victories in both the 2019 Sri Lankan presidential elections, as well as the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election. On 22 October 2020, the ...