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| Thursday, 11 December 2003 |
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Colombo lawyers demand inquiry The Colombo Magistrate's Court Lawyers Association, at a meeting held yesterday presided over by Attorney-at-Law Lakshman Ranasinghe passed a resolution calling upon the Chief Justice and other members of the Judicial Services Commission to take appropriate action against the Acting Magistrate of Colombo after an inquiry into the incident in which the latter discharged a suspect on December 8, 2003, Poya holiday in a manner that "allowed the abuse of the due process of the law". The resolution expressed "grave concern in the manner in which special and/or favourable judicial discretion was meted out to the suspect as against any other suspect or ordinary citizen disregarding the inveterate practice and procedure hitherto obtained and the said order of the Acting Magistrate clearly violates the fundamental principles of equality before the law and gives out a dangerous signal that the law favours the rich and the mighty while justice is denied to hundreds of persons without bail in remand in connection with similar offences." |
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