අධිකරණයේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ගැන වැඩිදුරටත්
Rajpal’s column reports that the resolution a group of lawyers put forward against the appointment of a parliamentary select committee to inquire into the wrongs of Sarath N. Silva’s time as chief justice has been approved by the bar association’s executive committee, and names the lawyers who drove it.
අධිකරණ ස්වාධීනත්වය ගැන හෙළන කිඹුල් කඳුළු
More than 150 lawyers have signed a resolution calling for a general meeting of the bar association against the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the wrongs done by the retired chief justice while he held office — and the first signature on it, according to the newspapers, is that of a candidate for the presidency of the association at the coming election.
දුමින්ද සිල්වා හා අධිකරණය
The judiciary can be counted an important factor in the tangles of this country. As Harold Laski said, the courts are the mirror that reflects the degree of political civilisation in any national society — and we did once have a judiciary of that kind.
සරත් නන්ද සිල්වාගේ ක්‍රියාකාරකම් සොයා බැලීම
The select committee the government means to appoint to inquire into the improper acts done while Sarath N. Silva held the office of chief justice has become a subject of argument, and the first man to challenge it is Sarath N. Silva. He says appointing one two years after his retirement is an act of revenge, and that such a committee could damage judicial independence.
සාධාරණ බව පෙනෙන්නටද තිබිය යුතුය
The investigation into the tragedy arising from the clash between the member Duminda Silva and the president’s trade union adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra is a criminal investigation that puts the working of the law in Sri Lanka to the test. In a criminal case the working of the law begins with the police investigation.
වත්කම් බැරකම් නීතිය ගැන වැඩිදුරටත්
After Anna Hazare’s satyagraha succeeded, the Indian prime minister and the members of his cabinet published their declarations of assets and liabilities for the public to see. It can be read as a step to control the disillusion growing among people towards the leaders of the government — and as a very important by-product of the popular struggle against corruption.
සරත් සිල්වා හා තේරීම් කාරක සභාව
The papers report that the government has decided to appoint a parliamentary select committee to look into the wrongs done in the judiciary during Sarath N. Silva’s time as chief justice. He says it is being done to suppress the fight he is now carrying on against the government’s corruption, and that since he is a retired citizen the government has no power to appoint a committee to inquire into him.
අධිකරණය ජනමාධ්‍ය හා සමාජ-දේශපාලන යථාර්ථය
Uvindu Kurukulasuriya, once a freelance writer for Ravaya, questioned Ivan’s present silence on the burning questions of the judiciary in an article for the Sunday Leader on the 17th. He opened with something that interests the public: that the president, minister Basil Rajapaksa and the prime minister attended a reception at the home of Saliya Hettige on his appointment to the Supreme Court.
නව අගවිනිසුරු හා මහජන අපේක්ෂා
Ivan wishes the newly appointed chief justice well — and records that he wished her predecessor well in the same way, expecting him to put right some part of the enormous damage Sarath N. Silva had done to the courts, and that it has to be said with regret that nothing of the kind happened.
මහත්මා ගාන්ධි ඝාතනයේ 63 වැනි සංවත්සරය වෙනුවෙනි. ගාන්ධි ශ්‍රී ලාංකික අපට අදාළවන්නේ කෙසේද?
Gandhi can be called the greatest theorist the world has produced on popular struggle for social justice, and its greatest fighter. Before he introduced his non-violent tradition the world had only a method of fighting evil with evil; he gave it a way of defeating evil without becoming evil, and proved it worked by testing it in an enormous and complicated society.