Parliamentary sub-committee picked to formulate guidelines to include law as subject in schools

Minister of Justice Ali Sabry PC speaking at a special joint meeting of the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Education and Justice in Parliament. Minister of Education Prof. G.L Peiris was also present .

An eight-member parliamentary sub-committee has been appointed to formulate an appropriate methodology to include law as a subject in the school curriculum.

The appointment was made at a special joint meeting of the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Education and Justice chaired by Education Minister Prof. G.L Peiris and Justice Minister Ali Sabry PC recently.

The members are State Minister Susil Premajayantha MPs Rauf Hakeem, S. Sritharan, Weerasumana Weerasinghe, Sagara Kariyawasam, Amarakeerthi Athukorala, Diana Gamage and Major Sudarshana Denipitiya. Assistant Secretary General of Parliament Tikiri K. Jayathilake was appointed as the secretary to this sub-committee.

Minister of Justice Ali Sabry said that it was very important to impart a basic understanding of the law to the children of the country as the public knowledge of the law was at a very low level. He said steps had been taken to impart knowledge of basic laws to citizens in the developed countries and that there was a need to introduce law as a subject in schools.

Minister of Education Prof. Peiris instructed the committee members to prepare a report containing the recommendations within two months.