{"id":107830,"date":"2013-09-27T14:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=107830"},"modified":"2013-10-02T23:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:55:01","slug":"full-text-de-facto-cjs-ruling-on-devolution-of-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-text-de-facto-cjs-ruling-on-devolution-of-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Text: De Facto CJ&#8217;s Ruling On Devolution Of Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/govt-to-have-its-way-on-land-powers-supreme-court-rules-against-pcs\/\">yesterday, ruled<\/a><\/span> that land powers were vested in the government and not in the Provincial Councils.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The bench comprised de facto Chief Justice Mohan Peiris and Justices K. Sripavan and Eva Wanasundera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/update-the-case-against-mohan-pieris-misconduct-pieris-himself-chaired-the-bench\/mohan-pieris-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-71793   alignright\" title=\"Mohan Pieris\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mohan-Pieris4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mohan-Pieris4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mohan-Pieris4-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 63px) 100vw, 63px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Judges ruled that under the constitution land was vested in the people or the central government to be handed over to the provincial councils according to law and on their request.<\/p>\n<p>To read the de facto Chief Justice&#8217;s\u00a0judgement in full click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Supreme-Court-29-09.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":71793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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