A high powered committee has been established with immediate effect by the Minister of Justice and Law Reform Milinda Moragoda to consider reforms to the Administration of the Justice system in the Northern Province.


The ministry in a statement said that the Committee will consider and recommend issues relating to the lacunas in the Administration of Justice system in the North where the system has been lagging behind due to the 30 year conflict.


The Committee to consider the Administration of Justice in the Northern Province will consider providing infrastructure, staff, training for the staff where it is necessary, equipment and streamlining the other areas such as prisons, legal education, issues relating to indictments etc, the ministry said.


The Committee will be chaired by the Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Sripawan. The other members of the Committee are, Justice Ministry Secretary Suhada Gamalath, Secretary Ministry of Constitutional Affairs Mrs. Malkanthi Wickramasinghe, Additional Secretary (Legal), Ministry of Justice and Law Reform Mrs. Kamalini de Silva, Additional Secretary (Admn.) Vice Chancellor, University of Jaffna Prof. N. Shanmugalingam, Deputy Solicitor General, Attorney-General’s Department A. Gnanathasan, Prisons Chief V.R. de Silva, Jaffna District Secretary K. Ganesh, District Secretary and several others.