SRI LANKA: The politics of habeas corpus and the marginal role of the Sri Lankan courts under the 1978 constitution

April 15, 2011
This paper was initially published in the Law and Society Trust Review, Sep. -- Oct. 2010
 
Basil Fernando*
"LIBERTY RIGHTS AT STAKE: THE VIRTUAL ECLIPSE OF THE HABEAS CORPUS REMEDY IN RESPECT OF ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES IN SRI LANKA" is a study of 880 judgments of various courts of Sri Lanka on habeas corpus applications from pre-independence times up to the present period by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena and Jayantha de Almeida Guneratne. The effort examines an impressive number of judgments on habeas corpus during this period.¹ This preview of this forthcoming publication is based on their findings.

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