Three Sri Lankan nationals were charged Friday in federal court in Los Angeles with supporting an ISIS cell that killed hundreds of people in a string of coordinated suicide bombings that shook ...

Starting from midnight on 26 September, all foreign nationals arriving in Sri Lanka will once again be able to apply for visas under the previous system, Minister of Public Security Vijitha Herath ...

Nor have the Sri Lankan courts been an agent for change. Article 12 of the constitution forbids discrimination on the basis of caste, race or religion, but it applies only to government policy.

Previously, Sri Lankan courts have defined that (See Chcchari Mudlier Vs, Mohomadu, (See 21 NLR 369) all the offences recognized in Sri Lanka are those which are being recognized under a statute.

The result was that last week, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka determined that the Bureau of Rehabilitation Bill as a whole is inconsistent with Article 12(1) of the Constitution which enshrines equal ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan lawyers boycotted courts on Wednesday, crippling the judicial system in a protest at what they call an unfair impeachment move against the chief justice and is ...

Sri Lanka’s five-member Supreme Court, chaired by Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, ruled last month that President Wickremesinghe violated fundamental rights when he postponed the country’s ...

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has acquitted the remaining four men convicted over the brutal massacre of Tamil detainees at the Bindunuwewa rehabilitation centre near Bandarawela in 2000. All ...