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Legal education in Sri Lanka is based on the constitution and the legal framework of Sri Lanka which is mainly based on Roman-Dutch law.. The modern legal education in Sri Lanka dates back to 1833 when the Supreme Court was allowed by Section 17 of the Charter of 1833, to "admit and enrol as Advocates and Proctors, persons of good repute and of competent knowledge and ability upon examination ...
To practice law in Sri Lanka, one must be admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.This is achieved by passing law exams at the Sri Lanka Law College which are administered by the Council of Legal Education and spending a period of six months under a practicing attorney of at least 8 years standing as an articled clerk.
Sri Lanka Law College (abbreviated as SLLC), formerly known as Ceylon Law College, is a law college, and the only legal institution where one can enrol as an Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka. [2] It was established in 1874, under the then Council of Legal Education, in order to impart a formal legal education to those who wished to become Advocates ...
To practice law in Sri Lanka one must be admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. This is achieved by passing law exams at the Sri Lanka Law College which are administered by the Council of Legal Education and spending a period of six months under a practicing attorney of at least eight years standing as an ...
The faculty maintains close links with the Sri Lanka Law College, which conducts the law exams need for admittance as an Attorney at Law. Being the first Law Faculty in the country, and the oldest Faculty of Law in the entire University system of the country it conducts both undergraduate and post-graduate degree programs in the field law.
Department of Law, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna; Open University Law School, Sri Lanka; Department of Law, Faculty of Arts, University of Peradeniya; Faculty of Law, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. School of Business & Law, ESOFT Metro Campus (In collaboration with London Metropolitan University, UK).
There are three primary Law schools in Sri Lanka. These are Sri Lanka Law College, Faculty of Law (University of Colombo) and the Open University of Sri Lanka.However to practice as an attorney one must pass Sri Lanka Law College law exams and be "admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka".
It was dissolved in 1972 to establish the University of Sri Lanka. In 1974 the Jaffna campus was added to the University of Sri Lanka. [5] [6] [7] The change of the government in July 1977 led to dismantling of the single university apparatus with the plan of establishing independent universities. With the promulgation of the Universities Act.