SLIIT Journal of Humanities and Sciences [SJHS] Volume 04 Issue i 2023
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Publication Open Access A Comparison of Mental Well-being among Female Undergraduates in Sri Lanka based on Relationship Status(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-05-20) Gomes, J. C.; Ponnamperuma, L.; Hettiarachchi, A.Principles of natural justice, including fair hearings and unbiased decision-makers, should apply in employee disciplinary procedures. However, Sri Lankan labor law does not statutorily require employers to conduct domestic inquiries before imposing disciplinary punishments. This study investigated whether courts continue to uphold principles of natural justice in the absence of a legal mandate requiring domestic inquiries, thereby assessing the necessity for legal reforms. Through examining legislation, case law, and academic literature, this study found courts generally only consider if a valid reason exists for the punishment, not whether fair procedures were followed. Further discrimination arises between public and private sector employees in applying natural justice principles. Reforming labor law to mandate domestic inquiries before employee punishment would strengthen natural justice rules and align with international standards like ILO Convention 158. This reform is needed to universally uphold procedural fairness in workplace discipline. Until then, the judiciary cannot fully ensure employees’ rights to fair disciplinary procedures are protected. Courts have upheld natural justice primarily under writ or fundamental rights jurisdiction, mainly benefiting public sector employees. Private sector employees lack that protection. Requiring domestic inquiries before punishment through amending the Industrial Disputes Act would fill this gap. This suggested legal reform would bolster the rule of law in Sri Lanka’s employment relations. As the law stands, employers currently have full discretion on disciplinary procedures. Statutorily mandating domestic inquiries would check that unilateral authority. This study demonstrates the need to embed fair process requirements into labor legislation to fully realize principles of natural justice.Publication Open Access Application of Natural Justice Principles in Workplace Discipline: The Need for Legal Reform in Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-05-17) Rajapakse, R. L. W; Seneviratne, P. K.; Seneviratne, P. K.S. K.Principles of natural justice, including fair hearings and unbiased decision-makers, should apply in employee disciplinary procedures. However, Sri Lankan labor law does not statutorily require employers to conduct domestic inquiries before imposing disciplinary punishments. This study investigated whether courts continue to uphold principles of natural justice in the absence of a legal mandate requiring domestic inquiries, thereby assessing the necessity for legal reforms. Through examining legislation, case law, and academic literature, this study found courts generally only consider if a valid reason exists for the punishment, not whether fair procedures were followed. Further discrimination arises between public and private sector employees in applying natural justice principles. Reforming labor law to mandate domestic inquiries before employee punishment would strengthen natural justice rules and align with international standards like ILO Convention 158. This reform is needed to universally uphold procedural fairness in workplace discipline. Until then, the judiciary cannot fully ensure employees’ rights to fair disciplinary procedures are protected. Courts have upheld natural justice primarily under writ or fundamental rights jurisdiction, mainly benefiting public sector employees. Private sector employees lack that protection. Requiring domestic inquiries before punishment through amending the Industrial Disputes Act would fill this gap. This suggested legal reform would bolster the rule of law in Sri Lanka’s employment relations. As the law stands, employers currently have full discretion on disciplinary procedures. Statutorily mandating domestic inquiries would check that unilateral authority. This study demonstrates the need to embed fair process requirements into labor legislation to fully realize principles of natural justice.Publication Open Access Judicialization of the Administrative Process? A Study on the Role of Natural Justice Principles in the Public Administration of Sri Lanka(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-05-17) Rathnayake, S. H.Studies on the role of administrative law in the realization of the public policy of a country has been the subject for numerous studies, but rarely has it been observed through the prism of natural justice. Therefore, the present study aims to address this dearth in research by focusing on the role principles of natural justice can play in the exercise of discretion by public administrators, the agents whose work helps realize the public policy of a country. To achieve this objective, this study has conducted a review of the major administrative law cases that were decided in Sri Lanka along with the local and international literature that relates to this subject. Thus, this study argues that there is a discernable hesitancy in the early administrative law decisions to recognize the role natural justice principles can play when safeguarding the rights of the public from the abuse of discretionary powers by the administrators. However, a more receptive attitude towards recognizing the role of natural justice in public administration could be observed towards the late twentieth century in Sri Lanka, a shift that is probably brought forth by the changing welfarist policies and socio-economical instabilities in the country. Therefore, this study contends that the role natural justice principles can play when curving the discretionary powers of the administrative authorities has now been well established in Sri Lanka, creating a legal tradition that continues to gain prominence within the country’s public policy developments. However, this study also has identified some criticisms that can be levelled against the incorporation of natural justice principles in the public administration of Sri Lanka which in turn may prevent the general public from reaping the full benefits of those progressive changes that continue to take place.Publication Open Access Determining Differentially Expressed Genes in Dengue Patients During Disease Progression(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-05-15) Coorey, H.; Jayatillake, R.; Jayathilaka, N.; Ambanpola, N.Gene expression studies on gene transcription to synthesize functional gene products have been used extensively to understand biological differences between different disease conditions. Thus, this study determines differentially expressed genes in dengue infection during disease progression following the three phases: Febrile, Defervescence and Convalescent. Integrative data analysis of two publicly available longitudinal datasets in Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database has been employed to accomplish the prime objective of exploring temporal gene expression patterns. The Friedman test was given more emphasis due to the non-normality distributions of data. Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) and linear mixed models were also implemented to examine the potential of detecting differentially expressed genes despite non-normality. The Friedman test revealed significant differences in gene expression levels across different phases in dengue disease over time. This led to a notably higher count of genes showing differential expression compared to the other two methods: Repeated measures ANOVA and linear mixed models. The pathway analysis approach consists of significant differentially expressed genes derived from the Friedman test. The results identified upregulated pathways with any significant change in the overall expression of genes within pathways over time for the Febrile and Defervescence phases considering the Convalescent phase as a baseline. Moreover, genes available in pathways were not identified by the two parametric tests for non-normal data implying that the parametric approaches resulted in the least significance for data with non-normal distributions.Publication Open Access An Alternative Proof of Ptolemy’s Theorem and its Variations(Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-05-10) Amarasinghe, I. S.This paper introduces a pure geometric proof for Ptolemy’s Theorem, without using trigonometry, coordinate geometry, complex numbers, vectors or any other geometric inversion techniques focusing on cyclic quadrilaterals and employing a generalized identity in relation to a cevian of an arbitrary Euclidean plane triangle. Additionally, the paper provides proofs to the converse of Ptolemy’s Theorem to which almost no pure geometric complete proof is available, and to the standard Ptolemy’s Inequality, to fulfil the research gap in the proofs to some extent. It also includes applications, new corollaries, derived from Ptolemy’s Theorem and its converse.