{"id":107890,"date":"2013-09-28T02:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T20:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=107890"},"modified":"2013-10-03T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T14:43:47","slug":"full-texts-all-three-judgements-of-the-sc-on-land-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-texts-all-three-judgements-of-the-sc-on-land-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Texts: All Three Judgements Of The SC On Land Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka <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\/\">issued a landmark verdict<\/a><\/span> on land powers under the 13th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-texts-all-three-judgements-of-the-sc-on-land-rights\/mohan-dfcj-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-107892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-107892\" title=\"Mohan DFCJ copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mohan-DFCJ-copy-150x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a>Giving three separate judgments,\u00a0de facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris, Justice S.Sripavan and Justice Eva Wanasundare determined that the powers regarding state land is vested with the Central Government and not with the Provincial Council.<\/p>\n<p>To read the\u00a0de facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris&#8217; judgement click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/full-text-de-facto-cjs-ruling-on-devolution-of-land\/\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read\u00a0Justice S.Sripavan&#8217;s judgement click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SC-Appeal-Sripavan.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To read\u00a0Justice Eva Wanasundare&#8217;s judgement click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SC-appeal-Eva-W.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":107892,"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-107890","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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