(b) Indirectly Incorporating Treaty Standards
Penal Code Amendment Act (1995), (2006) (CRC, CEDAW)
Citizenship Act (1948) (CRC, CEDAW)
Penal Code Amendment Act (2006) (Palermo Protocol to UN Convention on Transnational Crime)
Domestic Violence Act (2005)(CRC, CEDAW)
Right to Information Act (2016) (ICCPR)
(c) Relevant Case Decided in the Supreme Court
Bulankulame v Secretary, Ministry of Industrial Development (Eppawela case) 2000. 3 Sri Lanka
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See sources of International law and cases below.
Sources of Law
General Sources of Law
(i) International Law
• Legislation Incorporating International law. (See Introduction)
• Case that has questioned application of international law
Singarasa v Attorney General SC/Spl LA No. 182/199 SC Minutes 15.9 (2006)
(ii) Cases that have Integrated International Law into Domestic Law
• Sirisena V. Perera (1991) 2 Sri LR 97
• Weerawansa v Attorney General (2000) 1 Sri LR 367
• Sriyani Silva v Iddamalgoda(2003) 2 Sri LR 63
• Kaviratne v Commissioner of Examinations SC (FR) No 29/2012
• Abasin Banda v S.I. Gunaratna& Others, cited in ARB Amerasinghe, Our Fundamental Rights,
Sarvodaya (1995) P-190, SC Application 109/95 SC Minutes 28/10/1994.
• Manohari Pelaketiya v H.M. Gunasekara and others SC/FR/No 76/2012
(iii) Relevant International Conventions and Optional Protocols Ratified by Sri Lanka
(Full references – see section 10, below)
• ICCPR and Optional Protocol
• ICESCR
• CEDAW and Optional Protocol
• CRC and Optional Protocols
• CAT (Torture)
• CERD (Racial Discrimination)
• Migrant Workers Convention
• Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (HC)
• ICTF (Terrorist Financing)
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