Traumatic events can leave us feeling overwhelmed, helpless, and without guidance. When facing legal challenges that arise from such events, a lawyer can provide invaluable...
Photo courtesy Anura Pradeep Dr. Radhika Coomaraswamy, a prominent lawyer, diplomat and human rights advocate, is widely recognised for her significant contributions to the field of international human rights and women’s rights. She served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 to 2012. In 2017, after atrocities against the Rohingya people, she ...
Photo courtesy of HRW In 2022 parliamentarian and lawyer Premanath C. Dolawatte presented to parliament a Private Member’s Bill to amend Sections 365 and 365A of the Penal Code of Sri Lanka with the aim of ensuring the rights of the LGBTIQ community. Reflective of its Victorian values, these penal provisions prohibit “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” and ...
Photo courtesy of Lanka News Web In a major development in the human rights arena, SLPP parliamentarian and lawyer Premanath C. Dolawatte handed over a private member’s bill to President Ranil Wickremesinghe seeking to amend laws that marginalise the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer/Questioning (LGBTIQ) community in Sri Lanka. It was handed over to President Wickremesinghe on August ...
Lamledra, the house and the routine For the Univ reading parties Leslie and David used a place on the southern coast of Cornwall, a house called Lamledra high on a cliff above the village of Gorran Haven. It had been built as a holiday home for his family by Sir John Fischer Williams who achieved fame as a lawyer in ...
Photo courtesy of Verite Research Seven months have passed since the arrest and detention of human rights lawyer, Hejaaz Hizbullah. When he was taken into custody on 14 April, his friends and family, and some within his fraternity, decried the obvious injustice. They were quickly told to quieten down and ‘let the justice system do its work’. They were told ...
This is the story of two boys, one a self-confessed bookworm and the other indubitably a sportsman, having won colors for basketball and rugby in his school and leading the rugby team to multiple trophies that year. The bookworm, now a lawyer, decided upon entering Colombo University, to play ‘a game of men.’ An ardent rugby fan, it was natural ...
Photo courtesy of northeastern.edu Last month (May 2020) a Magistrate in Jaffna had withdrawn quarantine orders against the organizers of end of war commemorations, based on appeals by lawyers.[1] At least three lawyers have faced reprisals in the days afterwards. Attorney-at-Law Mr. Roy Dilaksan’s house was reported to have been attacked by unknown persons.[2] Another lawyer who had appeared for ...
T. Greg Doucette, a US lawyer, and a mathematician named Jason Miller have compiled a list of 780 videos (as of June 16) showing police brutality. The investigative journalism website Bellingcat has documented over 140 incidents of police violence against journalists during the protests. A website called www.copcrisis.com claims ‘only a small fraction of the 17,000 law enforcement agencies in ...
The controversial Professor of Mathematics, scholar and lawyer from Vavuniya – C. Suntharalingam, was a member of independent Ceylon’s first cabinet of Ministers. Resigning from his post, he wrote open letters decrying the direction Ceylon’s independence was taking. These letters, present insight into Suntharalingam’s life and a version of events that contributed to Sri Lanka’s tumultuous recent history. Buy it ...