Cricket Impresario
WASHINGTON, March 11, 2009 (AFP) - Cricket mogul and financier Allen Stanford is refusing to cooperate with authorities investigating his role in an alleged …
Legal
No Bail
March 11, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's Ceylinco group chairman Lalith Kotelawala remained in remand over fraud charges at an unlisted subsidiary that has collapsed …
Refuge
TOKYO, January 30, 2009 (AFP) - The number of asylum seekers in Japan doubled last year amid turmoil in Myanmar but only a small number of them were granted …
Legal Meet
Jan 23, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's lawyers are hosting an ICT law conference in Colombo next week, to debate emerging legal issues with the heavy use of …
Capacity Problem
Jan 22, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's top markets regulator has said an accounting and auditing watchdog body was severely understaffed and lacked the ability to do …
Oil Deal
Dec 15, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court barred a senior official from a state-run petroleum retailer over a case involving derivative deals and …
Media Nomination
Dec 03, 2008 (LBO) - An imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist, who faces a lengthy jail term for expressing his views, if convicted, has been nominated for a media …
Property Lure
Nov 19, 2008 (LBO) - Several Sri Lankan government institutions are scrambling to get land in a government property near the capital Colombo whose ownership …
Freedom Battle
Nov 14, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has suspended new broadcasting regulations brought through a gazette notice, after TV stations and …
Secret Budget
Nov 04, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has struck down a hidden budgetary fund that gave the island's top treasury official power to circumvent …
Pay Up
Nov 04, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's central bank said it has ordered four unlicensed finance companies that failed to register with the regulator to repay …
Debt Consultant
Oct 22, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a statement on a consultant Toshihisa Iida, the spouse of the head of the …
Bagged
Oct 13, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has halted a recent practice by the island's top retail chains to charge for plastic bags, and ordered …
Supreme Order
Oct 11, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has called for new laws to cut political interference in investment projects and the handing out of …
Gross Betrayal
Oct 11, 2008 9LBO) – Sri Lanka's former president Chandrika Kumaratunga had grossly violated public trust in a deal where state lands and a tax holiday …
Legal Signal
Oct 11, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka top grouping of legal professionals had unanimously condemned an attack on anti-corruption activist and lawyer J C …
Reversed
Oct 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has rapped a former president for abuse of power and reversed a controversial transfer of state land to a …
Bunker Saga
Oct 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's former Treasury Secretary P B Jayasundera was ordered to assure Supreme Court that he would not remain in public service …
Public Service
Oct 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has suspended a controversial new rule that gave the President powers to extend the terms of chosen public …
Legal Action
Sept 30, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's lawyers are to protest in front of the main court complex in the capital Colombo while condemnation poured in, after an …