Colombo, Sri Lanka – October 6, 2025. Since its launch in 2024, LankaLaw.net has crossed the milestone of 100,000 visitors and has signed up over 8,000 users, cementing its place as Sri Lanka’s top legal tech platforms. What sets LankaLaw apart is not just traffic, but its mission: to offer comprehensive and freely accessible legal content and AI support, removing common barriers to legal research and understanding.
Unlike many platforms that hide statutes, case law, and judicial decisions behind expensive subscriptions, LankaLaw makes them open for all. Its offerings include:
What LankaLaw Offers: A Deep Dive into Legal Resources
LankaLaw functions as a full‑scale, public legal library and AI assistant. Its resource collection includes:
- All Acts and Amendments: The texts of parliamentary Acts of Sri Lanka, along with their amendment history, arranged by year, alphabetical order, and consolidated versions.
- Consolidated Acts: Updated, integrated versions of statutes that reflect amendments and revisions. LankaLaw maintains a “Consolidated Acts (2024)” collection, for example.
- Case Law Collections: Full access to reported judgments, including Sri Lanka Law Reports (SLR) and New Law Reports (NLR).
- Latest Supreme Court Judgments: LankaLaw keeps its judgment database up to date with the newest rulings from Sri Lanka’s highest court.
- Case Digests: Summaries and digests of significant cases to help users grasp core principles more quickly.
- Legislative Enactments & Core Statutes: The platform offers foundational legislations such as the Constitution, Civil Procedure Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Penal Code, Judicature Acts, etc.
- E‑Law Library: A central portal organizing these documents, enabling download, search, and exploration by year, topic, or statute.
In short: LankaLaw is building what amounts to Sri Lanka’s largest freely accessible legal repository.
AI Legal Assistance: A Smart Gateway to the Law
To complement its static resources, LankaLaw offers an AI‑powered legal assistant. Users can pose queries in natural language and receive instant guidance, pointing them toward relevant acts, judgments, or digest entries. LankaLaw also supports a “PDF Chat” feature, enabling users to interact with uploaded legal documents through the chat interface.
While the AI does not replace expert legal advice, it’s designed to lower the threshold for understanding legal matters, especially for citizens unfamiliar with legal language or process.
Free Access vs Paywalls: LankaLaw’s Public Mission
Many existing platforms—both local and international—require subscriptions, institutional access, or per-document payment to unlock statutes, validated consolidated laws, or court decisions. Examples include specialized legal research services and law firms’ premium portals.
By contrast, LankaLaw’s ethos is open access:
- No paywalls or hidden fees for Acts, amendments, case law, or digests
- No requirement to be a lawyer or subscriber to browse or download
- Regular updates to the law and judgments to keep the content current
- AI tools integrated, not locked behind a pay tier
Its viability is sustained through community support and potential partnerships, rather than monetizing basic legal knowledge.
