Yahapalanaya: A Constitutional Curate’s Egg
In any event, fundamental rights actions, by virtue of their constitutional nature, are restricted both substantially as well as procedurally. As legal practitioners are well aware for example, challenges to Bills infringing constitutional governance have failed before the Supreme Court on numerous occasions. This is due to inability to bring obnoxious clauses within the narrow ambit of fundamental rights violations, notwithstanding strenuous efforts of counsel. This limited relaxation of immunity should therefore not be allowed to masquerade as a great advance on what existed before.
by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
Courtesy: The Sunday Times, Colombo
Courtesy: The Sunday Times, Colombo
( March 16, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Some weeks ago, this column likened the performance of the Sirisena Presidency and the Wickremesinghe Government to the proverbial curate’s egg in the colloquial meaning of that term; good in some parts but demonstrably less so in others.
