“You teach yourselves the law, but I train your minds. You come in here with a skull full of mush; you leave thinking like a lawyer”. ~ Professor Charles Kingsfield in the
The Commercial High Court of Colombo has granted a 14-day enjoining order restraining legal action to wind up SriLankan Airlines over unpaid international bond obligations amounting to $209 million. The order, issued
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A former British paratrooper, known only as Soldier C for his safety, is once again under investigation over the fatal 1972 shooting of Joe McCann, a prominent Official IRA commander during the
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The United States is intensifying its efforts to dismantle a global criminal network accused of using stolen cryptocurrency to finance North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, with a high-profile trial and new sanctions
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Drug use disorders represent a pressing issue across the globe and have placed a particularly heavy burden on Sri Lanka’s public health and security systems, profoundly affecting its youth and broader communities.
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It is popularly said in this country that a politician out of power is like a ‘banana without skin’. These days, we see several such politicians being escorted in and out of
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The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The
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In a landmark development for international criminal justice, Sean McGovern, the right-hand man of notorious crime lord Daniel Kinahan, has been extradited from the United Arab Emirates to Ireland — a move
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What if justice, as we venerate it in liberal-democratic orders, is merely a sophisticated veneer for entrenched power? What if its moral sublimity is but the normative consequence of institutional inertia and
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The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers ~VShakespeare, Henry VI (Act IV, Scene II ) Current Relevance In a characteristically incisive manner, Shakespeare—through the infamous line “The first thing
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Accountability, or the orchestrated illusion of it, lies at the bleeding heart of our modern socio-political malaise. From the crumbling courthouses of collapsing democracies to the gilded executive chambers of unrestrained autocrats,
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