Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court today acquitted former Chief Justice Mohan Peiris and two others from a Bribery case filed against them for allegedly preparing an erroneous report to gain undue ...

Sri Lanka's new president on Wednesday restored the country's former chief justice after she was controversially impeached by the previous administration. Lawyers welcomed Shirani Bandaranayake with ...

President Maithripala Sirisena revealed, yesterday, that the first action he took using his executive powers was to remove former chief justice Mohan Peiris, when he came and begged him not to remove ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The International Commission of Jurists has condemned the appointment of a trusted aide of Sri Lanka’s president as the country’s chief justice and urged the government to ...

COLOMBO: Unfazed by the intense agitation for his ouster, spearheaded by the new Maithripala Sirisena government and the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), Supreme Court Chief Justice Mohan Peiris ...

Sri Lankan lawyer J C Weliamuna (C) speaks during a press conference against the controversial sacking of chief justice Shirani Bandaranayake, in Colombo, Jan 14, 2013. — Photo by AFP COLOMBO: Sri ...

Sri Lankan rights activists and lawyers shout slogans against current Chief Justice Mohan Peiris, seen on the left on a placard, center, during a protest outside the Supreme Court in Colombo on ...

Sri Lankan Chief Justice Mohan Peiris declared on September 28: “No one should obstruct ongoing development programs in Colombo.” He was presiding over a Supreme Court bench hearing of a petition ...

Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice, Mohan Peiris, recently made remarks that openly attack democratic rights, in line with the government’s police-state methods. He declared that human rights existed to ...