1+ week, 15+ min ago   (1046+ words) More than 1,500 statements have been recorded so far in the ongoing investigations into the recent riots in Negombo, Mahara, Kuruwita and Magazine prisons, while concerns over prison overcrowding and delays in drug-related cases remain unresolved. The investigations by the Criminal…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (862+ words) The passing of the country’s 40th Chief Justice GPS de Silva a few days ago leaves a sense of profound loss. The GPS de Silva Court This goes beyond the personal even though this Chief Justice epitomised three rare virtues; kindness,…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) Attorney General Parinda Ranasinghe Jr Attorney-General Parinda Ranasinghe (Jr), P.C., said that the office of the Attorney-General in Sri Lanka is distinctive, playing a dual role as public prosecutor and chief law officer of the state in civil litigation, while remaining…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (823+ words) My dear Pujith and Hemasiri, I am writing to you at a time when I am not even certain that you will be able to read this, being as you are, in custody. The decision to send you to the…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (573+ words) Discussions on the digital economy and cybersecurity topped the National ICT Law Conference 2026 last week, with the focus being on the proposed Digital Economy Act and a dedicated Cybersecurity Act. The Digital Economy Act, which has received Cabinet approval, aims…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (1189+ words) By our Political Desk This week there was unrest in four prisons – Mahara, Magazine Remand Prison (Colombo), Kuruvita and Pallansena – which left three prisoners dead and scores of others injured. Some of the prisoners died of gunshot injuries after the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (933+ words) It is a safeguard created for the protection of the people. As former United States Chief Justice William Rehnquist observed, judicial independence does not exist for the benefit of judges; it exists for the benefit of society. It is against…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1059+ words) A significant number of people in Sri Lanka’s bulging prisons are there because they cannot afford their court-decreed fines, annual Prisons Department statistics show. Except for a slight dip in 2015, fine defaulters consistently made up more than half of all…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (689+ words) The horrifying images broadcast from the Negombo prison over the past week have sent shockwaves across Sri Lankan society. In a tragedy that should have never happened, inmates (21) who were in the custody and care of the State were killed,…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1223+ words) Furthermore, he hit the nail on the head exactly as to where the responsibility for the jail massacre lay when he affixed the blame squarely on the government and declared that “it is entirely unacceptable in a democratic nation that…...