The Sri Lankan justice system cannot ensure accountability for human rights violations and war crimes - ICJ

ATTACKS ON JUDICIARY AND LEGAL PROFESSION UNDERMINE THE RULE OF LAW AND PREVENT ACCOUNTABILITY WITHIN SRI LANKA  - ICJ statement
The Sri Lankan justice system cannot ensure accountability for human rights violations and war crimes because the judiciary has been deprived of its independence and impartiality, and lawyers suffer intimidation, hindrance, harassment and improper interference.

Sri Lanka: judges around the world condemn impeachment of Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake | CIJL-ICJ

The Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (CIJL)

Today, senior judges and eminent jurists from around the world joined together, calling on the Government of Sri Lanka to reinstate the legal Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake.
Sri Lanka-Impeachment Chief Justice-ICJ open letter-2012 (full text in pdf) 

Sri Lanka’s Parliament should reject motion to impeach Chief Justice- ICJ

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Members of Sri Lanka’s Parliament should reject the impeachment motion to remove Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, that will be put before Parliament on 10-11 January 2013, the ICJ said today.
The ICJ call comes after a three-member panel of the Supreme Court, in a decision issued on 1 January 2013, ruled that the impeachment procedure in Parliament was not constitutionally valid, finding that such procedures could only be established ‘by law’ enacted by Parliament. The Standing Orders governing the current impeachment investigative process are not considered ‘law’ under the Constitution of Sri Lanka.

Immediate justice for the physical assault on Manjula Tillekaratne, Secretary of the JSC is essentional - ICJ

The Sri Lankan government must immediately provide justice for the physical assault on Manjula Tillekaratne, Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission in Sri Lanka, and cease public efforts to undermine the independence of the country’s judiciary, the International Commission of Jurists said today.

Unidentified persons assaulted the Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission on the morning of 7 October 2012. Lawyers and judges held a strike on Monday to protest recent and escalating threats to judicial independence in Sri Lanka.