COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – A Sri Lankan parliamentary committee has concluded after a much-criticized impeachment hearing that the country's chief justice is unfit to hold office because of ...

But rather than a transparent and merit-based selection process, an unsettling political undercurrent seems to be shaping the race for the judiciary’s top seat.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's chief justice on Wednesday asked an appeals court to quash a parliamentary committee report that found her guilty of unexplained wealth and misuse of power.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Commission of Jurists has condemned the appointment of a trusted aide of Sri Lanka's president as the country's chief justice and urged the government ...

Yesterday, the president of Sri Lanka formally ordered the removal of the country’s chief justice from office, capping a controversial impeachment process against the chief justice. In an email ...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa removed Sri Lanka's chief justice from office with immediate effect on Sunday, defying a Supreme Court ruling that the impeachment process was illegal and setting the ...

[JURIST] Sri Lanka prosecutors on Monday brought criminal corruption charges against former chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake [JURIST news archive]. The nation’s anti-graft commission accused ...

[JURIST] A spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] expressed concern [press release] on Friday over the impeachment and removal of Sri Lanka’s Chief ...

The speaker of Sri Lanka's parliament accepted on Tuesday a ruling party motion to impeach the chief justice for improper conduct, setting the stage for a potentially destabilising clash between ...