{
  "id": 431338,
  "title": "Only 1 % of 1.1 mn cases held up in SC and CA: GL",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/only-1-of-1-1-mn-cases-held-up-in-sc-and-ca-gl",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-10T00:05:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Island Sri Lanka",
    "slug": "the-island-sri-lanka",
    "url": "http://island.lk/only-1-of-1-1-mn-cases-held-up-in-sc-and-ca-gl/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "By Shamindra Ferdinando Convenor of the Joint Opposition Prof. G.L. Peiris has challenged the NPP government to prove its much-touted claim that increasing the mandatory retirement ages of Supreme Court judges and Court of Appeal judges was intended to clear the massive backlog of court cases, numbering over 1.1 mn. The former External Affairs Minister […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}