Request to the Minister of Justice to introduce a legal amendment placing a convicted person under house arrest when sentenced to imprisonment by the High Court, until an appeal is filed and a bail application is decided...!
Request to the Minister of Justice to introduce a legal amendment placing a convicted person under house arrest when sentenced to imprisonment by the High Court, until an appeal is filed and a bail application is decided...! Attorney-at-Law Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna has requested the Minister of Justice and National Integration, Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara, to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure Act No. 15 of 1979 or introduce a Judicial House Arrest Act for the Protection of Prisoner Rights, which would allow an accused person, upon being convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by the High Court, to be placed under judicial house arrest from the moment he orally state in open court that he will file an appeal—due to the time taken to obtain the relevant judgment and sentencing order to file an appeal petition—until the appeal is filed and the bail application is decided. The lawyer has pointed out that this legal amendment will address prison congestion, public inconvenience...