24/10/2009 - Daily News
After rehabilitation: Ex-child soldiers admitted to schools
(by Chamikara Weerasinghe)
...A batch of 141.. admitted to a special Unit affiliated to Hindu College, Ratmalana to pursue their education and start new lives as ordinary children, Law Reforms... Justice... Minister... Moragoda, Hindu College Principal... officials... present at the time... Another batch... will be admitted... at the end of the month... The Justice... Ministry and the Commissioner... office Rehabilitation... to assist the program…
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25/10/2009 - The Sunday Leader
‘Bail Must Be The First Option’
Minister of Justice… Moragoda in an exclusive interview… spoke of his goal to improve prison conditions in the country… Asserting that current conditions are in an appalling state Moragoda maintains that bail should be the first option unless the prisoner is dangerous and might flee... "philosophy of prisons... partly about punishment, partly about deterrence... most importantly about rehabilitation…
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25/10/2009 - The Sunday Leader
The Prison System: Over Crowded and Corrupt
(by Michael Hardy)
Photos by Rohan Vitarana
…After being ignored for decades, the prison crisis is finally receiving attention from the new Minister of Justice, Milinda Moragoda… One of Moragoda’s appointees to the Board of Visitors acknowledged that the prisons have not been a high priority in recent years…
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26/10/2009 - Daily News
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...former LTTE child soldiers numbering over 140 reached Colombo to continue their education in a separate unit of Hindu College as a part of their rehabilitation program. Here Minister Milinda Moragoda officially opening the education unit…
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27/10/2009 - The Island
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A group of... LTTE former LTTE soldiers... at... the Colombo Hindu College… Minister of Justice... Moragoda meets... on their arrival in Colombo…
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28/10/2009 - The Island
Justice and Law Reforms Minister Milinda Moragoda visits Minuwangoda Court
...Moragoda visited the Appeal, District and Magistrate Courts including those in Mt. Lavinia, Kaduwela, Matara and Jaffna to meet with the Judiciary and legal community to discuss the challenges and issues faced by them…
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01/11/2009 - Sunday Leader
Shocking child abuse stats
(by Michael Hardy)
…Ministry of Justice statistics… reveal that child abuse in Sri Lanka has reached epic proportions… approximately 15,000 trials currently pending nationwide, more than 4,000 - 27 percent - involve some form of violence toward a child… over half of all court cases outside of Colombo relate to child abuse…
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02/11/2009 - Daily News
Are our children truly blessed?
Milinda Moragoda, the recently appointed Justice Minister and a man who can be trusted to shake out the dust accumulated over years of negligence, boredom and sheer incompetence and a refreshing readiness and humility to consult experts on subjects he is not familiar with, had got his officials to submit a comprehensive breakdown of cases pending before the courts…
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02/11/2009 - Daily News
Four billion population excluded from legal system - Milinda Moragoda
(by Dulshani Gunawardena)
...Moragoda stated that... four billion of world population... living far within the grasp of legal system... ensuring property rights was one of the most important methods of incorporating... population into the legal system... that though contributing more than 60 percent of the economy... women amounted to less than 10 percent of land title holders…
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03/11/2009 - Daily News
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa participated at the laying of the foundation stone for a modern office complex for lawyers at Hulftsdorp, Colombo yesterday. Chief Justice Asoka de Silva, Attorney General Mohan Peiris, Ministers Milinda Moragoda, Prof. G. L. Peiris and V. Puthrasigamani were also present. Picture by Chandana Perera…
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