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Showing posts with label Impeachment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Impeachment. Show all posts
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Sri Lanka: Supreme Court overrules Appeals Court writ against CJ impeachment

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Dharisha Bastians   ◾5-Judge bench overturns Appeals Court writ against PSC findings in Shirani B impeachment ◾SC says Court of Appeal...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Sri Lanka’s rights violations bring Commonwealth to turning point

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Frances Harrison ...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Commonwealth lawyers call for suspention of Sri Lanka form the Commonwealth

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Lawyers of the Commonwealth today passed a resolution on Sri Lanka at a special plenary session during the Commonwealth Law Conference in ...

Ex-CJ’s passport IMPOUNDED

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As reported by the Government mouth peice Celylon Daily News: * To foil flight to escape bribery probe * Used time buying tactics when ca...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Law Society of England and Wale supports CLA call for suspension of Sri Lanka from Commonwealth

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The Law Society of England and Wales today added its voice to those calling for the suspension of Sri Lanka from the Councils of the Comm...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Asian jurists seriously alarmed by the rapid collapse of the rule of law in Sri Lanka and the loss of the core values of the separation of powers

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ASIA: A statement by Asian jurists on the impeachment of the Chief Justice and the collapse of rule of law in Sri Lanka A statement b...
Monday, April 8, 2013

The JSC headed by Mohan Peiris transferred nearly 100 district judges and magistrates despite pleas..

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BASL launches brave struggle against attack on Judiciary - Editorial   Daily Mirror Though the politicisation of the Supreme Court and Judic...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

BASL disturbed by unusual transfers of judicial officers ( who opposed the Impeachment)

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CJ Mohan Peiris at work The Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has appointed a subcommittee to look into the...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Sri Lanka: Where are the core values? Four violations within a week!

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Basil Fernando The International Bar Association in the executive summary of their report entitled, ' A Crisis of Legitimacy '...
Saturday, March 30, 2013

Attack on the Temple of Justice and on religious freedoms:The combination of the two at present is both a time-bomb waiting to go off and a cancer spreading to other areas at the same time.

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The BASL convocation ( photo - Sunday Times) Shirani Bandaranayake attended the Annual Convocation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka i...

BASL convocation : De jure Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayaka presides , while Mohan Peiris, the De Facto Chief Justice, was not invited.

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Shirani Bandaranayake attended the Annual Convocation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka in Colombo on March 30, 2013. She was invited as...
Friday, March 29, 2013

Sri Lanka facing constitutional crisis concludes IBAHRI report

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The removal from office in Sri Lanka of Chief Justice Bandaranayake was unlawful, is undermining public confidence in the rule of law, and...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Justice crushed in Sri Lanka - Commonwealth countries risk a human rights nightmare if they capitulate to the Rajapaksa regime.

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Illustration: Andrew Dyson. Geoffrey Robertson The Commonwealth is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster, if it goes ahead with N...
Saturday, March 2, 2013

Magnitsky Act: All 117 MP’s who Signed Impeachment Motion and the 7 Cabinet Ministers who Convicted Chief Justice Must be Denied Entry into Britain and Bank Accounts Frozen

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It is called a Magnitsky Act, named after Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian whistleblower jailed when he tried to expose corruption and who wa...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Upul Jayasuriya at the helm of Bar Association: Clear endoesement of BASL stand on Impeachment

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Upul Jayasuriya, Attorney-at-Law and senior human rights lawyer, was elected as the new President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, in ...
Saturday, February 2, 2013

Sri Lanka: 2013 and Beyond by Alistair Burt :UK to support proposed resolution .

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Visiting Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister for South Asia Alistair Burt said yesterday that his country would support the planned pro...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Silent Acceptance of New Chief Justice by the Legal Community Shows the Govt has Succeeded for the Time Being

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Sumanasiri Liyanage There is an unusual and unexpected calmness in Hulftsdorp in the post-impeachment days in spite of the fact that all tr...
Friday, January 25, 2013

Mohan Peiris was a political appointee as an advisor to the cabinet of the present government - Head, Bar Association

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Political friends? Sri Lanka's legal fraternity takes a stand for judicial independence Lawyers in Sri Lanka have boycotted the ina...

Shirani Bandaranayake’s Ruling on Sacred Areas Act and not Divineguma Bill was the Cause of her Impeachment

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Faced with this unexpected resistance, the government withdrew the Act in April 2012. Three people were instrumental in impeding the Sacred...

90 per cent of the respondents to BT poll: No fair trial for Shirani B

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Lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects and various other professionals this week slammed the impeachment of Shirani Bandaranayake in a ...