These are public court records, published by the courts and held behind a login - not on the open web. Anyone named in a judgment can ask what we hold and have it removed, free and without proving anything first. This page tells you what we hold, what you can ask for, and how to reach us. You do not need an account and you do not need a lawyer.
Olee AI LLC, the operator of OleeASK, is the controller of this library. Acknowledged within 5 working days, acted on within 30 days, free of charge.
OleeASK operates a searchable library of judgments of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka, together with Acts of Parliament. Lawyers and researchers use it to find judgments with similar facts.
Everything in it is public record. Judgments are delivered in open court and published by the courts; Acts are published by the Government Publications Bureau. Under section 8(b) of the Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003, official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature carry no copyright, which is what allows anyone - us included - to reproduce them. We did not obtain any of it privately, and we hold nothing about you that the court did not publish.
It is not on the open web. The library sits behind a login and is available only to organisations that have bought access. It is not crawlable, no search engine indexes it, and nothing in it will appear in a public search for your name.
A judgment names the people involved - parties, the accused, witnesses, sometimes others mentioned in evidence - and it records what was alleged, what was found and what was ordered. If you were involved in a case decided by either of those courts, your name may appear in the text of that judgment exactly as the court wrote it.
We do not build a profile of anybody. We do not combine judgments to make a record of a person, we do not sell the material, and it is not offered to employers, insurers, landlords or anyone else as a way of screening people. It is indexed by the facts of the case, not by the people in it.
To be told what we hold. We will tell you which documents in the library mention you and where each came from.
To have something corrected. If a summary or extracted record misstates what a judgment says about you, tell us and we will correct it or remove it. Our summaries are written by software and can be wrong; that is our problem to fix, not yours to live with.
To have it removed. We will take a judgment out of the library on request from a person named in it, and we will not require you to prove a legal entitlement first.
To object to how it is processed, or to ask us to restrict it, under the Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022.
Write to privacy@olee.ai with enough detail to find the judgment - a case number, the court and the year, or the names of the parties - and tell us what you want done. You do not need a lawyer to write to us and you do not need to use any particular form of words.
We acknowledge within 5 working days and act within 30 days. If a request needs longer we will say so and say why.
When we remove a judgment we remove all of it: the document, the text passages, the search vectors, the extracted case record, the stored file and any cached summary. It stops being findable by search, by fact pattern and by name. We also record the removal so that re-importing our sources cannot quietly bring it back.
We do not charge for any of this.
We cannot alter the court record. The judgment is the court's document, delivered in open court and held by the court, and removing our copy does not change it, seal it, or affect any other publisher who holds it. If you want the court record itself restricted, that is an application to the court and an Attorney-at-Law can advise you on whether it is available.
We cannot tell you whether the judgment still stands, whether it was appealed, or what it means for you. OleeASK is not a law firm and is not an Attorney-at-Law, and nothing on this page is legal advice.
Sri Lankan law restricts publication of the identity of a child concerned in proceedings and of the complainant in a sexual offence. Where a judgment names such a person, we act on request immediately and without argument, and we do not ask the person to establish anything first.
You do not have to be the person named to tell us. If you are a parent, a guardian, an Attorney-at-Law or anyone else who has noticed it, write to us and we will deal with it.
Tell us, and a person rather than a process will look at it again.
You may also complain to the Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka, established under the Personal Data Protection Act, No. 9 of 2022. Nothing on this page limits that right, and you do not have to come to us first.
The law itself carries no copyright and cannot be owned. What publishers do own is the layer they add on top of it - headnotes, catchwords, digests, annotations, commentary, and the arrangement and typography of a published law report. We hold judgments and statutes, not law reports, and we reproduce no publisher's editorial work.
If you believe something in the library infringes your rights, write to privacy@olee.ai. We will look at it and take it down if you are right. We do not require a formal notice before acting.
See also our Privacy Policy and the case-law clauses in our Terms.