How independent is the Judiciary?
The following anecdotal evidence is narrated to
test the independence of the judiciary that was supposed to exist
before the current contest between Parliament and the Judiciary
broke out. The raging controversy is based on the claim that the
Judiciary was independent and the appointment of a Parliamentary
Select Committee to probe into the conduct of the Chief Justice Dr.
Shirani Bandaranayke erodes the independence of the Judiciary.
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CJ’S BLINKING ACCOUNTS:
OPEN AND SHUT CASE OF ACCOUNT FIXING/CORRUPTION
With the Parliamentary Select Committee hearings
on the impeachment of the Chief Justice due today, independent
observers have expressed shock and dismay over the manner in which
some of her financial dealings have been manipulated, with a view to
hiding her true financial worth from assessors.
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Mother Sri Lanka Trust launches RUN for Lanka
The first provincial workshop of Mother Sri
Lanka Trust’s latest initiative Project RUN was successfully
conducted at the main Conference Hall at Temple Trees on October 25,
2012 with the participation of over 2000 students and 150 teachers
and Principals representing 150 schools from the Western Province.
This event followed the launch of Project RUN which was held on
October 12, 2012 in the presence of the Secretary to the President
and the Trustee of Mother Sri Lanka Trust, Lalith Weeratunga at
Temple Trees to 600 plus Education Directors attached to the
ministry at provincial, zonal, and divisional levels.
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Power of media and rule of INFORMATION
The rule that information should be subjected to
a certain level of regulation has been accepted in the history of
newspapers. Prof Sunanda Mahendra de Mel is more competent to
provide evidence in this regard for I am much junior to him in the
field of university education. What I wish to explain is that we all
use a common space in society whether in a newspaper, radio or
television. To explain it further when you raise a voice
individually it is heard over a small distance. But when you raise a
voice through television it is heard by the whole country.
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