Sri Lanka’s “One Country, One Law” Explained
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Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapakse has appointed a 14-member “One Country, One Law” task force headed by Bodu Bala Sena leader Gnanasara. In an October gazette, the President declared that as “no citizen should be discriminated against in the eyes of the law” he was establishing a task force “to study the concept of a common law”.
The task force which was reconstituted in early November, consists of academics and lawyers belonging to the Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim communities. The task force that will prepare the draft of the proposed law, has wide powers to study various acts and amendments already prepared by the justice ministry. The team will submit its own amendments and proposals to the ministry and present a final report by ...