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Reforms to the International Trade Regime for the Protection of Marine Living Resources
(2017)
The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established, as the successor to the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), through Marrakesh Agreement giving birth to new arenas of international trade. Though the main ...
Decisive role of Roman Law in development of International Law
(2017)
Abstract –Roman Law has been generally conceived by legal academia as a system of private law, which mainly deals with contact, marriage and property. Though it has been not much widely discussed Justinian’s “Corpus Juris” ...
Analysis on Deforestation and Environmental Law in Sri Lanka
(2017)
Ever since human starts to walk in the earth they had a close relationship with the forest and their daily essentials were provided by the forest. But due to the expansion of civilization, forest lands were destroyed for ...
Wrongful Convictions and Remedies to Minimize Imprisonm
(2017)
Wrongful conviction is generally viewed as the conviction of a factually innocent person. It denotes the exoneration of an individual who was convicted of a crime that he or she did not commit or have any stake in. In the ...
A Game of Titles: The effectiveness of the Implementation of the current Land Title Registration programme under the Registration of Titles Act No. 21 of 1998 in Sri Lanka
(2017)
A definite title to one’s land is essential before one can reap the full benefits of such land. In order to obtain a definite title to a land, a landowner must register such land legally in order for him to fully enforce ...
Beware if You are being a Cheap Charlie: Used Goods and Merchantable Quality
(2017)
Abstract—As specified by S.15 (2) of the Sale of Goods Ordinance No 11 of 1896 (SGO of 1896), where goods are bought by description from a seller who deals in goods of that description, there is an implied condition that ...
Financial Transactions Reporting: An Overview of the Sri Lankan Law
(2017)
Financial crimes including money laundering and terrorist financing has become a major burden to the economies of almost all the jurisdictions. Further, the institutions engaged in finance business including banking business ...
Causation and the liability for non- disclosure of risk in Sri Lanka; vindicating rights of patients by lightening principle of causation
(2017)
Informed consent is considered as one of the corner stones in medical practice and it is a socio legal obligation of medical professionals. Failure to disclose risk is considered as one aspect of medical negligence. ...
Greening Patent Law: The Sri Lankan Perspectives
(2017)
Environmental issues are one of the key areas addressed by technology. The patent system has the potential of enhancing technological development. However, despite the fact that promoting environmentally – valuable innovation ...