Lawyer requests CJ to abolish court vacation system
Lawyer Nagananda Kodituwakku has requested Chief Justice K. Sripavan to abolish the court vacation system to avoid legal delays.
Kodituwakku, a public interest litigation activist, said that a fact-finding study conducted by him had found that the present court vacation system was clearly a contributory factor to legal delays.
In a letter to Sripavan, he explained how the court vacation system came into force under the 1906 Ordinance, which introduced provisions for t