Deputy Speaker Ajith Rajapakse announced to Parliament yesterday (07) that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena had endorsed the certificate on the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill on May 03.

The Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 (CrPC) has been the cornerstone of our administration of criminal justice for more than a century. However, people have constantly criticised its provisions for ...

Professor Steve Coughlan has been teaching criminal law at the Schulich School of Law for 25 years. He has shared his extensive research in this area of the law as the author of several books, ...

Chapter 2nd Section 6 to 35 of Code of Criminal Procedure deals with the Constitution of Criminal Courts and their powers although section 6 of Code of Criminal Procedure deals with the classification ...

The central government has initiated the process for comprehensive amendment of criminal laws – the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 – in ...

From Moses to Hammurabi to Solon to Napoleon to Narendra Modi, strong rulers have prided themselves on being law givers to the ruled. The proposed criminal law overhaul with the replacement of the ...