by Our Correspondnent in Colombo A significant disclosure was made during yesterday’s court proceedings into Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, when Additional Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris told the court that military
There is something quietly radical about Amy Coney Barrett’s Listening to the Law, although many readers—both admirers and critics—may fail to notice it. Published after one of the most polarising judicial confirmations
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Northern Province Governor Nagalingam Vedanayagam has pledged that the government will continue investigations into enforced disappearance cases while ensuring justice and financial reparations for affected families, reaffirming a renewed state commitment to
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Oscar-winning director James Cameron and Disney are facing a lawsuit from actress Q’orianka Kilcher, who alleges that her facial likeness was “extracted, replicated and commercially deployed” in the creation of the Avatar
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In Shakespeare’s historical play Henry VI, Part 2, infamous Dick the Butcher uttered those words signifying the necessity of purging the legal fraternity before forming a tyranny. The legal profession, with all
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Political tensions in Bolivia intensified after the legal defense team of former President Evo Morales accused judicial authorities of committing serious procedural irregularities ahead of a high-profile human trafficking trial set to
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El Government of El Salvador has launched one of the largest criminal proceedings in its history, putting 486 alleged senior members of the Mara Salvatrucha-13 gang on trial in a sweeping case
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Venezuela’s National Assembly has approved the first discussion of a major judicial reform that would significantly expand the country’s Supreme Court, a move authorities claim will accelerate legal proceedings and improve institutional
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The Desertion Dynamic: When Colleagues Become Critics One of the most damaging features of the collapse of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was the speed at which its own ranks fragmented under
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OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has disclosed in court that he holds a stake in the company worth nearly $30 billion, along with previously undisclosed financial ties to CEO Sam Altman,
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Elon Musk has settled a civil lawsuit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over his delayed disclosure of a significant stake in Twitter, now known as X, agreeing to pay
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For decades, the Ceylon Electricity Board stood as a central pillar of Sri Lanka’s public sector, powering homes, industries, and livelihoods. Today, it is gone—dissolved and replaced by four newly formed companies
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Europe is confronting a rapidly evolving security crisis as hybrid threats—ranging from proxy violence to cyberattacks—spread across the continent, exposing deep vulnerabilities in national defenses and social cohesion. A recent stabbing in
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Sri Lanka has lost one of its most courageous and enduring voices for human rights and social justice. Suriya Wickramasinghe, Secretary of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka (CRM), former Chair
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Security sources have revealed that a team of senior officers from Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), including Director SSP Shani Abeysekara, has undertaken a special overseas assignment. According to circulating information
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Spain’s top judicial authority has sanctioned a magistrate for using artificial intelligence to help draft a court ruling, in a case that underscores growing global tensions over the role of emerging technology
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