Power and Ideology of Professions: a Critical Analysis of the Role of Judiciary and Laws Delays in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Abstract - Contrary to the orthodox traditional approaches, systematic study of underlie ideologies can be used as a powerful method of examination and understanding of individual as well as collective professional conduct and organizational behaviours as well as the reasons for their performance impediments. Purpose of this study is to examine how ideology of judges affects the functioning of Sri Lankan judiciary as a professional State institution. Study further focused on the most compelling and contentious pragmatic issue of laws delays in the Sri Lankan context through the theoretical lenses on ideology and power relationship of judges and litigants through critical analysis. Systematic ideological analysis warrant critical insights and understanding how modern professional structures such as judiciary were able to survive amid the dissatisfaction of the litigants and society. Moreover why litigants do not directly resist and voluntary submitted themselves for such exploitation with passive reactions