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    Fighting New Demons with Older Weapons: Countering Online Harassment with Actio Injuriarum under the Law of Delict
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences,SLIIT, 2021-09-25) Jayamaha, S; Harasgama, K; Rathnayaka, H
    Online harassment has undoubtedly become a menace that has severe negative impacts on victims and the society at large. Owing to its grave nature, jurisdictions around the world have utilized different branches of law such as criminal law, tort law and the intellectual property law to redress the victims of online harassment as well as to penalize the perpetrators. This paper attempts to analyse whether actio inuriarum under the law of delict can be employed as a corrective justice mechanism to provide solatium to victims of online harassment, considering the severe emotional distress they undergo due to harm caused to their dignity, reputation and privacy. The paper adopts the view that actio injuriarum provides an effective remedy to plaintiffs for impairment of dignity, person and reputation, caused by insult and thereby analyses how it could be utilized as a general remedy for sentimental damages suffered by the victims of online harassment. It concludes with a finding that the principles and elements of actio injuriarum are broad enough to redress the victims of online harassment, which is releatively a new phenomenon, although there may be little to no case law illustrating the exact position upto date.
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    Socio-demographic characteristics of recreational activities: evidence from eastern province.
    (University of Jaffna, 2019) Rathnayaka, H; Geethanjana, P; Gamage, U; Karunarathne, H; Jayathilaka, R
    Socio-demographic characteristics of individuals in Eastern province of Sri Lanka are an important area to study to formulate better policies for businessmen who are interested in recreational activities in the country. The study used annual sample of 21,756 households that covered all 25 districts in the country, based on data from the provincial and district level. This research suggests to investigate the determinantsof socio-demographic characteristics of households on spending on recreational activities. As such, itutilized the methods of descriptive statistics chi-squaredistribution to derive quantitative data and information in a meaningful way. The study adopted cross-sectional statistics to create distribution pyramids and diagrams to highlight the socio-demographic characteristics of people in the Eastern province. The results and finding revealed that most spending on recreation activities are done by the Male Headed households (MHHs) than the Female Headed households (FHHs) in the Eastern province. It is respectively 78.63 percent and 21.37 percent.