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Households and businesses were attacked and destroyed in several areas, resulting in one death in Kottaramulla [10] and the destruction of Sri Lanka's largest pasta factory in Minuwangoda. [11] The government imposed curfews and deployed the army to quell the violence, amid criticism enough was not done to prevent these reciprocal attacks. [12]
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 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.
Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited is a public limited liability company incorporated in Sri Lanka in 1926 by its founder D. R. Wijewardena. 75% of its shares were Nationalized under the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Special Provisions) Law No. 28 of 1973 and this stake is held by the Public Trustee of Sri Lanka on behalf of the ...
Relangi Selvarajah, a freelance journalist working for the state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, and her husband Sinnadurai were shot dead in Bambalapitiya, Colombo on 12 August 2005. [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Relangi had hosted and produced programmes critical of the rebel LTTE at the behest of the EPDP, a government backed paramilitary group. [ 66 ]
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.
The bill titled as Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill is regarded as one of the important legislations to be passed in the Parliament of Sri Lanka as it is related to the Colombo Port City project, which is the biggest foreign investment received by Sri Lanka from China in the country's history. The bill was slated and deemed as ...
An Act to establish the Online Safety Commission; to provide safety from prohibited statements made online; to prevent the use of online accounts and inauthentic online accounts for prohibited purposes; to make provisions to identify and declare online locations used for prohibited purposes in Sri Lanka; to suppress the financing and other support of communication of prohibited statements and ...