(June 03, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Law & Society Trust (LST) announces the release of its latest publication ‘Habeas Corpus in Sri Lanka: Theory and Practice of the Great Writ in Extraordinary Times’ co-authored by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena and Jayantha de Almeida Guneratne.
This publication critically examines more than 880 orders and substantive judgments of all courts in Sri Lanka concerninghabeas corpus applications filed in regard to thousands of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions during the past eight decades, including those cases lodged subsequent to the ending of the conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka in May 2009.
It analyses specific lacunae in the law, judicial responses thereto and the functioning of the legal process in reference to domestic, regional and international standards. Advocacy at the regional level with judicial officers, members of Provincial Bar Associations, community workers and litigants form part of the findings.
Its recommendations include the need for the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka to prescribe Rules in terms of its constitutional mandate in order to better ensure the securing of this most fundamental liberty right.
LST hopes that this Study will be useful to judicial officers, scholars, legal practitioners, activists and the general public.
Printed copies are available at LST and from selected bookshops in Colombo.
Advance orders may be placed with LST for Sinhala and Tamil translations of the book ‘‘Habeas Corpus in Sri Lanka: Theory and Practice of the Great Writ in Extraordinary Times.’
Sinhala and Tamil translations of the book “Is Land Just for Men? Critiquing Discriminatory Laws, Regulations and Administrative Practices relating to Land and Property Rights of Women in Sri Lanka” are available at LST and by 30 June 2011, at selected bookshops.
For further details, please contact publications.lst@gmail.com
Date of publication - January 2011
Number of pages - 283
ISBN - 978 955 1302 399
This publication critically examines more than 880 orders and substantive judgments of all courts in Sri Lanka concerninghabeas corpus applications filed in regard to thousands of enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions during the past eight decades, including those cases lodged subsequent to the ending of the conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Government of Sri Lanka in May 2009.
It analyses specific lacunae in the law, judicial responses thereto and the functioning of the legal process in reference to domestic, regional and international standards. Advocacy at the regional level with judicial officers, members of Provincial Bar Associations, community workers and litigants form part of the findings.
Its recommendations include the need for the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka to prescribe Rules in terms of its constitutional mandate in order to better ensure the securing of this most fundamental liberty right.
LST hopes that this Study will be useful to judicial officers, scholars, legal practitioners, activists and the general public.
Printed copies are available at LST and from selected bookshops in Colombo.
Advance orders may be placed with LST for Sinhala and Tamil translations of the book ‘‘Habeas Corpus in Sri Lanka: Theory and Practice of the Great Writ in Extraordinary Times.’
Sinhala and Tamil translations of the book “Is Land Just for Men? Critiquing Discriminatory Laws, Regulations and Administrative Practices relating to Land and Property Rights of Women in Sri Lanka” are available at LST and by 30 June 2011, at selected bookshops.
For further details, please contact publications.lst@gmail.com
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