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  Should all Children Learn English?   Many wonder whether the state policy regarding the teaching of the English would be the acceptance that for a full education English would be a necessity or whether a knowledge of the cultural degeneration of the independent sovereign Republic of Sri Lanka.   with Sinhala as the State Language and the acceptance of the fact that swabhasa is the best media of instruction it is necessary to point out that neither of the above mentioned extremes could be adopted regarding the knowledge of the study of a second language, which in Sri Lanka cannot be any other than English.   In Sri Lanka knowledge or this second language is necessary for the gathering of scientific knowledge, trade and commerce. And, for international understanding knowledge of English will be of immense value. In a developing country like Sri Lanka its leaders should know to converse and write English. As Sri Lanka’s aim is to grant equality to all the ...

  Why are the doctors leaving Sri Lanka? Those who rightly or wrongly want their children educated in an internationally accepted medium of instruction must have the right to do so. Sri Lanka is a tiny country and its main language is spoken in no other country. We are geographically sufficiently insular without becoming mentally insular by cutting ourselves off from the rest of the world. Politically this may pay dividends but for technological advancement it is disastrous. Despite all the shouting and attempted brain-washing by politicians, the demand today, even in the village is for facilities to study English because many feel that the door to progress, especially in the professional and technical subjects, is closed without knowledge of English. If politicians in this country insist on scrapping English as the medium of instruction in the professional and the technical subjects in the university. This country must be prepared to face a massive exodus of educated Ceylonese...

Introduction   The principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty is a weak arm against the unlawful executive and administration actions or sometimes legislative actions themselves. This means that the principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty does not always stand against the breach of’ rule of law. As Stanley de Smith stated in his doctoral    that, “...it has become clear that judicial review is not merely about the way decisions are reached but also about the substance of those decisions themselves. The fine line between appeal on the merits of a case and review still exists...towards a ‘culture of justification [1] ” .   The justification culture has been developed on the lap of judicial review.   The concept of judicial review has been justified by the notion of qualities of the democratic society. However, ‘...judicial review of statutes on constitutional grounds tends to raise issues of high political importance’ [2] though it has addressed the qualitie...

  Introduction Theories of constitutional interpretation refer to different philosophical approaches the interpreters take in construing the meaning of the constitution. The theories are both prescriptive and descriptive. These theories describe what interpreters usually do, but also prescribe what they ought to do. These theories are generally address how the meaning of the Constitution should be discerned, thus allowing the application of substantive constitutional law to a particular set of facts or issues. Whether it is necessary to have a unified theory of constitutional interpretation to analyze all aspects of the Constitution is itself a matter of debate and establishment of constitutional courts. Typically, the term ‘constitutional court’ denotes a decision making institution which is separate from the ordinary judiciary, and which has the final, and usually exclusive, say on the interpretation of the constitution, as well as the constitutional validity of laws and State ac...