Category: Legal

Dec 14, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan animal lovers and welfare organizations have raised concern over the rounding up of dogs near a popular promenade in Colombo, saying it might violate the president’s ‘no kill’ policy on strays. Just 15 of these have been won. The challenges in going to court include high costs, having […]

December 10, 2010 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s child protection authorities have traced the biological mother of a six-year-old girl who was suspected to have been sold as an orphan after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, police said Friday. Staff at the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) took custody of the child after neighbours complained that […]

BANGKOK, December 8, 2010 (AFP) – Thai authorities said Wednesday they had arrested 45 migrants from Sri Lanka in the latest of a series of crackdowns in recent months. The Sri Lankans, who were rounded up at a crowded apartment in a Bangkok suburb, appear to be economic migrants hoping to travel to a third […]

Dec 05, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court which is hearing a case on liquidating assets of a failed financial firm has approved the sale of hotel to repay depositors, a media report said. Ceysands and Golden Key are in Sri Lanka’s Ceylinco group. Golden Key depositors are said to be owed between 13 […]

November 23, 2010 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Tuesday began investigating a claim that Tamil Tiger rebels executed 26 captured government soldiers at the height of fighting between the two sides last year, an official said. Military spokesman Udaya Madawala said forensic experts and police investigators had been sent to the northeastern district of Mullaittivu Monday […]

Nov 18, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is planning to bring in a new law to fast-track state land allocations to investors which are held up due to procedural delays at local government level, deputy economic development minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardene said Abeywardene said such procedures required a new law to be passed. “We want […]

November 14, 2010 (AFP) – Sri Lanka is probing allegations that one of its nationals employed in Jordan was forced to swallow nails, in the third case involving alleged torture in three months, an official said Sunday. A housemaid identified as D. M. Chandima has told the Sri Lankan diplomatic mission in Amman that her […]

Nov 14, 2010 (LBO) – Helpless women whose picture were posted on the internet by third parties have been further victimized and in at least one case forced to flee her home after police published their pictures in the media, a report said. Pornography falls in to a category of so-called ‘victimless crimes’ which many […]

November 9, 2010 (AFP) – Newspaper editors in Sri Lanka on Tuesday refused to publish pictures of men and women who are wanted by police for appearing on porn websites in the country. Under a crackdown on pornography on the Indian Ocean island, police are trying to trace local men and women pictured in compromising […]

November 7, 2010 (AFP) – More than 50 police and prison officials were injured Sunday by inmates at Sri Lanka’s main jail in the capital Colombo after authorities launched a drugs raid, officials and doctors said. Convicts beat up police as they stormed the Welikada prison to search for hidden narcotics as part of a […]

Oct 30, 2010 (LBO) – Investors in Sri Lanka’s failed high-yield financial firms have lost more money than they should have by delaying liquidation and pressuring someone else to put additional cash to cover their losses, a legal expert has said. Neomal Gunewardene, partner of Nithya Partners, a law firm, said depositors in failed financial […]

BANGKOK, October 30, 2010 (AFP) – Thai authorities have arrested 61 Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka, police said Saturday, in the second such crackdown in recent weeks. After a tip-off, 114 people were rounded up in the southern province of Songkhla on Thursday, but some were freed because they were able to present valid travel […]