Category: Legal

RIYADH, July 24, 2007 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan minister said on Tuesday he was seeking Riyadh’s help in obtaining clemency for a teenage maid condemned to death but he did not expect an immediate outcome to efforts to save her life.“We got a very good and patient hearing” from Saudi foreign ministry officials during […]

July 24, 2007 (LBO) – A former minister who oversaw Sri Lanka’s privatization commission has gone to court seeking to block the sell down of a defunct sugar firm to a private firm. Sooriyaarachchi also alleged that the liabilities of Hingurana Sugar were not transferred to the new company. Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi, a rebel parliamentarian of […]

RIYADH, July 23, 2007 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan minister in Saudi Arabia to plead for the life of a teenage housemaid condemned to death for murdering a four-month-old baby said on Monday he was hopeful of a positive outcome. So far this year there have been 108 executions in Saudi Arabia. Deputy Foreign Minister […]

July 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has appointed the head of its legal division as its new deputy director general, the regulator said Wednesday. Marina Fernando, who joined the SEC in 2003 was its Director, Legal and Enforcement. “As Deputy Director General, she will oversee matter pertaining to the […]

July 16, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan court has convicted four executive directors of a listed company that went bust some years ago for not revealing information that affected the firm’s share price. The present SEC administration has made it clear that it would not allow compounding of offences with the provision that it […]

RIYADH, July 17, 2007 (AFP) – An appeal for a teenage Sri Lankan housemaid sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for murdering a four-month-old baby has been launched, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Rizana Nafeek, 19, was convicted of strangling her employer’s baby in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom in February 2005 in a case that […]

July 16, 2007 (LBO) – Lawyers hired to file an appeal for the condemned Sri Lankan teenager Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia have met the girl and started proceedings, the rights body that raised funds to fight her case said Monday. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) said representatives of the legal firm Kateb Fahad […]

July 13, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s construction industry is urging the government to accept draft guidelines on treating unsolicited bids in an effort to ensure transparency and fair competition in infrastructure contracts. The move comes at a time when the phenomenon of unsolicited bids in a range of infrastructure projects is becoming common, causing […]

July 11, 2007 (AFP) – A grouping of companies launched Wednesday a website dedicated to collecting information about officials and governments around the world who seek bribes. The US-based Trace International, a non-profit grouping of multinational firms, said their new website Bribeline.org will allow people or organizations to anonymously report bribe requests. Trace said its […]

BRUSSELS, July 11, 2007 (AFP) – A top European court ordered EU antitrust regulators Wednesday to pay damages to French firm Schneider for wrongfully blocking its takeover bid of a rival, potentially opening a floodgate to other cases.The court’s ruling was one of two blows it dealt to the Commission on Wednesday after it also […]

July 9, 2007 (LBO) – The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is calling on Muslim scholars to appeal a death sentence facing an under-aged Sri Lankan girl who is accused of killing a child in Saudi Arabia. AHRC says the girl, Rizana Naffeek, is facing death for a mistake made while feeding a four month […]

July 9, 2007 (LBO) – A Hong Kong based rights body has offered to foot a part of the legal fees to appeal the case of a young Sri Lankan girl condemned to death in Saudi Arabia with time rapidly running out to appeal her case. The Asian Human Rights Commission is urging the Sri […]