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The Impact of Tax Avoidance in the context of Economic Development in Sri Lanka: A Critique of Income Tax and Tax Avoidance
(2014)Income tax is a tax on income. The very important financial obligations of the country are bound by the revenue of the country. Tax avoidance and Tax evasion are very similar words which could be more affected to the Tax ... -
Need or Greed? An Analysis of White Collar Crime in the Sri Lankan Context
(2014)White Collar Crimes are a significant type of criminal behaviour which renders the traditional notions of criminal justice inadequate to define the causes of this crime. This paper seeks to analyse the areas in which the ... -
The Possibility of Adopting the Proportionality Test as a Balancing Tool between Development Needs and Individual Rights: A Critical Review in respect of Recent Development Projects in Sri Lanka
(2014)In 2014, Sri Lanka has closely marked five years since the conclusion of the armed conflict. During the same period, considerable economic and social progress was hindered because Sri Lanka is assertively reshaping its ... -
Power Sharing, Economic Development and National Security- Sri Lanka' s Crisis of Executive Convenience
(2014)'Stability' through national security and economic development is arguably a dominant model for governance in the contemporary world order. In transitional societies such as Sri Lanka the claims made on the basis of ... -
Promoting Entrepreneurship and Protecting Copyright of Authors: Revisiting to the Traditional Meanings of Originality and Authorship of Copyright Law
(2014)In this paper, it is argued that even today's changing face of objectives of copyright protection and its underlying rationale have a direct bearing on some issues of copyright law. For example, from the very inception of ... -
Protection of Digital Databases: Sri Lanka as a Reference Point
(2014)Economic development in Sri Lanka has relied heavily on foreign and domestic investment. Digital databases are a new and attractive area for this investment. This paper, whilst arguing that investment protection is crucial ... -
Protection of the Female Domestic Migrant Workers: Role of the Law
(2014)Female Population as a percentage of the total in Sri Lanka was last reported at 50.66 in 2011.With the introduction of the open economy concept to the country in 1977, new means of earning were integrated into the ... -
Protection of the Rights of Copyright Users with Special Attention to Visually Handicapped People under Sri Lankan Intellectual Property Regim
(2014)Today, the validity of intellectual property has been trumped the validity of all kinds of movable and immovable property. Due to its importance, a specific international organization which was known as World Intellectual ... -
Protection of the Rights of Sri Lankan Migrant Women Workers: Critical Analysis of the Domestic and International Legal Regime.
(2014)Sri Lanka is a third world country in which foreign employment plays a major role in directing foreign currency towards the country. The rate of migrant women workers in Sri Lanka is very high and they are highly vulnerable ... -
Right to intervene or not to be intervened:The Impact of International Humanitarian Interventions on State Sovereignty from an International Law Perspective
(2014)Despite the clear ban stipulated in the United Nations Charter on the use of force against territorial integrity and political independence against sovereign states international interventions based on humanitarian purposes ... -
Rooted in Sri Lankas Own Soil: Finding Our Very Own Path to Transitional Justice
(2014)This paper will look at the notion of Transitional Justice. It will attempt to find out if Transitional Justice can be classified as a Human Right. It will explore ways and means of how Transitional Justice could be realized ... -
Significance of Access to Justice and Legal Aid: An Analysis of Concepts and Contemporary Adjustments
(2014)Law is considered as a set of rules which regulates human conduct. When considering the final outcome of implementing such rules, 'justice' is overwhelmingly important. If there is an incapability of getting access to ... -
Significance of the Principle of Environmental Justice in the Protection of Environment: Sri Lankan Experience
(2014)Concept of Environmental Justice is a recently identified International Environmental Law Concept. The rationale for the concept 'environmental justice' is that people, regardless of their race, colour, nation or origin ... -
The Substantial Requisite of Stabilizing Rights for Academic Works; Intellectual Property Law Reflections
(2014)Intellectual Property (IP) rights are recognized as a regime which had been established by law to safeguard the creativity of mankind, in the atmosphere of fast moving global economy. In the present context, all most all ... -
Threats to On-line Privacy
(2014)The further development of the World Wide Web is threatened by the lack of online privacy and efforts to destroy net neutrality, says the father of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He believed the world had to think about ... -
Trends in Collective Bargaining Coverage and Union Membership Level in Sri Lanka
(2014)Collective bargaining is a powerful weapon in the labour field as the 'Contract of employment' is a negotiation between two unequal parties. In a contract of employment employer is the powerful and decision making party ...