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Verite Research, a Think Tank, has stated that the cabinet decision to ban women from purchasing liquor is unconstitutional. In a statement issued, it states:Under Sri Lanka's Constitution all persons are equal before the law and no one should be...

ECONOMYNEXT – A decision by Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers to reimpose a ban on women buying liquor is unconstitutional, Verité Research, a private sector think-tank, said. Women are entitled to purchase liquor under Sri Lankan law as at 10...

Think Tank, Verité Research says that the ban on the sale of liquor to women by the Finance and Mass Media ‘within the premises of a tavern’ by the Cabinet is unconstitutional. The Minister of Finance and Mass Media issued...

An Independent think-tank and a leader in the provision of information and strategic analysis in Sri Lanka says the cabinet decision to ban women from purchasing liquor is unconstitutional. Verité Research in a statement says under Sri Lanka's Constitution all...

Women are permitted to purchase liquor. On 10 January 2018, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media issued Excise Notification No. 02/2018 under the Excise Ordinance, No. 8 of 1912 (as amended). The new Notification amends Excise Notification No. 666...

ECONOMYNEXT – A decision by Sri Lanka’s Cabinet of Ministers to reimpose a ban on women buying liquor is unconstitutional, Verité Research, a private sector think-tank, said. Women are entitled to purchase liquor under Sri Lankan law as at 10...

Verité Research says the Cabinet decision to withdraw Excise Notification No. 02/2018 is unconstitutional. The notification removes the ban on the sale of liquor to women within the premises of a tavern. This legal insight explains why the Cabinet decision...

Verite`, a prominent research body, yesterday said that the Cabinet decision to re-impose a 60 year old ban on selling alcohol on women was unconstitutional. Issuing a statement, Verite` said, the decision was an infringement on Fundamental Rights ensured by...

A group of female rights activists cum veteran professionals on Wednesday petitioned Sri Lanka's Supreme Court challenging a controversial Government decision to revoke an order to allow women to be employed in places of the production and sale of alcohol....

Artiste Samanalee Fonseka and ten other women yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights (FR) petition in the Supreme Court against the government’s decision to withdraw the gazette issued to lift the ban prohibiting women to purchase liquor or to work in...