page_title: Government of Sri Lanka
section_title: Judicial Branch
hierarchical_section_title: Government of Sri Lanka / Judicial Branch
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context_page_description: The Government of Sri Lanka is a semi-presidential system determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative capital of Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
context_section_description: The judiciary is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in the country. It is set out in the constitution, which defines courts as independent institutions within the traditional framework of checks and balances. The Sri Lankan courts are presided over by professional judges, judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President with the nomination of the Parliamentary Council, others by the Judicial Service Commission.
  Sri Lanka has a legal system which is an amalgam of English common law, Roman-Dutch civil law and Customary Law.
caption: Supreme Court Complex, Hultsdorf
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