New era in Sri Lanka judiciary [October 21 2008]

A new chapter in Sri Lanka judiciary would be unveiled tomorrow when Colombo's Commercial High Court uses video conferencing to obtain evidence. The new facility will enable a citizen of the USA to give evidence for an ongoing case at the Commercial High Courts before Justice K.T. Chitrasiri.

Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva and many other eminent persons in the local legal field are to be present at the occasion. Sri Lanka has adopted this new system to be used in court proceedings to avoid the difficulty participants living in foreign countries face and hence not willing to come to Sri Lanka just to give evidence.