Category: Legal

Sri Lankas police and customs have been ordered to seize Buddha Bar music and bikinis with Buddha images, officials said Thursday.rnState Attorney Nihal Jayawardene asked for strict enforcement of laws that prohibit the commercial use of religious symbols and said Buddha Bar music and the bikinis would fall under the measures.rn rn His order was […]

Sri Lankas Supreme Court is to investigate a complaint from a man of the tiny indigenous community that police violated his rights by stopping him from using his native language, officials said Friday.Uruwarige Kekula said a police officer had threatened him with physical violence unless he spoke the islands majority Sinhalese language instead of his […]

A Sri Lankan convict who joined his prisons dance troupe escaped when his jailers took him to perform at a Buddhist temple, an official said Friday.The prisoner, serving a four-year jail term for robbery, vanished when he was brought from the main prison in the central town of Kandy three days ago for the temple […]

A restaurant in Sri Lanka which served a vegetable roll with a cotton dressing for a wound was fined Rs. 5,000 and warned to improve its hygiene, a press report said Friday.The magistrate in the southern town of Matara slapped the fine on the restaurant owner after a customer complained of discovering the offending dressing, […]

A draft Companies Act, thrown out by the former Government will be brought back to replace the 1980s piece of legislation governing businesses in Sri Lanka.Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle told Lanka Business Online that plans to draw up a fresh draft was dropped by the Alliance Government.rn rnInstead the Government will move […]

Central Bank has drafted new laws to combat pyramid schemes that are mushrooming around the country.Pyramid schemes use the same structure as multi-level marketing (MLM) where one entrant is required to bring in two or more recruits by the sale of a product or a voucher.rn rnBut Sri Lanka does not yet have specific provisions […]

Sri Lankas main Muslim leader Tuesday accused the government of implicating him in a sex scandal to secure his vote while a Buddhist monk charged that a fellow monk legislator had been abducted. Muslim leader Rauf Hakeem in a special address to parliament said the ruling party had fabricated a sex scandal to pressure his […]

The telecom watchdog ended its standoff with Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd on Thursday, withdrawing its case with the Fort Magistrate after the two parties reached a settlement. Mobitel agreed to pay Rs. 2 mn to cover the Telecommunication Regulatory Commissions legal costs and re-affirm the regulators authority over the telco industry.rn rnThe settlement comes after months […]

The governments first piece of business when parliament opens on May 18 will be to push through an Anti-corruption Bill to replace the Bribery Commission and the Act governing it.Alliance Minister Susil Premajayantha said on Friday that the Bill is now with the Legal Draftsman and is based on the principles of transparency and accountability.rn […]

lquote Can the new government summon enough numbers to appoint a Speaker of its choice and announce its policy statement? Speculation is rife in Colombo but the all-powerful minorities are taking it cool. Sri Lankas 13th Parliament will meet tomorrow amidst speculation on the new governments ability to muster a majority.rn rnAt its maiden sitting […]

Flour Mill giant Singapores Prima Ceylon Ltd has filed papers for arbitration against the government for failing to honour two clauses in its agreement.A fresh deal signed by the government and Prima in April 2001, specified that flour giant will not be discriminated against any other company/person engaged in the producing wheat flour.rn rnThe government […]

State-run Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corp. (SLRC), Independent Television Networks and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corp. (SLBC) challenged the independent election chief on Tuesday, over his decision to takeover the media institutions.rn rnElection Chief, Dayananda Dissanayake appointed a competent authority endash W D L Perera endash to run the media institutions until polls end on Friday. […]