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
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, has warned that a new Russian law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians living abroad represents an
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka’s Government is set to present the 22nd Constitutional Amendment Bill in Parliament on August 18, proposing to extend the retirement age of judges of the
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Allegations portraying former intelligence director Major General Suresh Sallay as a conspirator or even a mastermind behind Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks are facing a
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Sri Lanka has published the draft 22nd Constitutional Amendment, proposing significant changes to the tenure of the Chief Justice, the retirement ages of judges serving on the Supreme Court and Court of
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Twenty-six years ago in 2000 Prima Publishing published a book I wrote with my colleague, Lawrence M. Stratton. We had wanted to title the book, “How the Law Was Lost,” but we
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It has been seven years since Article 370 and 35A were read down and the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into the Union Territories of J&K (with a legislature)
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by Luxman Aravind The last week Trial-at-Bar judgment in the Easter Sunday criminal proceedings is far more than another judicial determination. It is a significant legal milestone that compels a reassessment of one
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The alleged mastermind behind the killings of two Russian siblings and a Thai family of three was released from prison just seven weeks before the first murder, triggering intense criticism of Thailand’s
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Editorial While Sri Lanka’s government continues to demonstrate its inability to confront the country’s mounting crises, the nation finds itself drifting from one emergency to another. Barely days after a major riot
More On 27 July 2026, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a proposal to raise the retirement age of judges at every level of Sri Lanka’s judiciary by two years — Supreme Court judges
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The latest issue of the CTC Sentinel published by the Combating Terrorism Center traces how the Islamic State has transformed China from a peripheral concern into one of its principal ideological and
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“Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.” ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight The Misconception After writing my essay “Why Fools Rule the World” – published in this newspaper – the thought
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On July 29, 2026, the US District Court for the Western District of New York (Buffalo, New York), convicted an American national, Hadi Matar, of Lebanese descent on charges of federal terrorism
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Australia’s internet safety regulator has launched legal proceedings against messaging platform Telegram, alleging the company failed to remove terrorist content from its service despite being placed on notice, marking a significant escalation
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The Sri Lankan government argues that one immediate strategy to make some reduction in the massive court case backlog, is by utilizing the expertise of senior legal minds serving as judges now
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