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LEGAL
AID NEWS |
| Introduction
- 'Wigs off to judges in Britain' |
| Friday, 20 July 2007 |
| Last week Reuters reported
that the centuries old custom of judges and lawyers
adorning themselves with wigs and different coloured
cloaks has been discontinued at least in the civil
courts in Britain.... |
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| Introduction
- Legal Empowerment of poor (LEP) |
| Friday, 13 July 2007 |
| The Commission of Legal
Empowerment of the Poor (LEP), the first global organisation
on legal aid and poverty alleviation had its first
meeting on 20th January 2006 hosted by the UNDP and
supported by the then President of the World Bank.
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| Introduction-
Shrinking and failing States |
| Friday, 6 July 2007 |
| The term failed State is
both a political and a lose legal expression to describe
a country. It is the worst form of derogatory term
whether used locally or internationally. ... |
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| Commissions,
Committees and Select Committees of Inquiry |
| Friday, 29 June 2007 |
| Sri Lanka, whether in sports,
administrative abuse, constitutional amendments or
the national question, the ready remedy that every
one propose is to set up a Commission or.... |
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| Introduction
- Corporate social responsibility |
| Friday, 22 June 2007 |
| The mission statement of
business written in 1970 by Milton Friedman that "the
one and only social responsibility of business is
to increase its profits" is still considered valid
but inadequate. Business cannot continue to prosper
by remaining indifferen |
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| Displacement
of citizens |
| Friday, 15 June 2007 |
| Forcible displacement of
human beings by state or non-state actors is an offence
recognised in International Law and in our own Constitution.
Our Constitution in Article 14 (1)... |
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| Renewed attempts
to curb corruption |
| Friday, 8 June 2007 |
| Newspapers recently announced
a Plan of Action to curb corruption sponsored by the
USAID through Anti-Corruption arm in Sri Lanka. This
should receive the attention of policy makers and
all ... |
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| Introduction
- Elders protection enhanced |
| Friday, 1 June 2007 |
| Sri Lankan social justice
systems continue to progress despite the ethnic conflict,
had been marvelous |
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| Introduction
- Legal Aid faces financial difficulties |
| Friday, 25 May 2007 |
| A comprehensive, effective
legal aid mechanism to provide access to indigent
seekers of justice is the only way to ensure equality
before law. This is a basic human right. No country
could call itself a functioning democracy in the absence
of a comprehens |
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| Introduction
- Mediation vs Litigation |
| Friday, 18 May 2007 |
| In 2006, the 35 Legal Aid
Centres of the Legal Aid Commission provided legal
advice and legal representation to some 18,000 indigent
litigants islandwide from Jaffna to Hambantota. |
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