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Since 1833 to 1973, there had been two types of proctors; proctors of the supreme court and proctors of a district court.The former, been appointed by the supreme court following a prescribed course of study at the Ceylon Law College could practice in any court in the island; while the latter, been appointed by a district judge was allowed to practice in the lower courts in that specific ...
Wikramanayake was admitted to the bar in Sri Lanka in 1980, having attended the Sri Lanka Law College.He later obtained master's degrees in law from the schools of law at the Vrije Universitiet, Brussels, Belgium, the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, US, and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts, US, and ...
Legal education in Sri Lanka is based on the constitution and the legal framework of Sri Lanka which is mainly based on Roman-Dutch law.. The modern legal education in Sri Lanka dates back to 1833 when the Supreme Court was allowed by Section 17 of the Charter of 1833, to "admit and enrol as Advocates and Proctors, persons of good repute and of competent knowledge and ability upon examination ...
Sinhala: එම් ඒ සුමන්තිරන්, romanized: M A Sumanthiran) born 9 February 1964) is a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician. A successful civil lawyer who practices civil litigation, human rights and constitutional law, Sumanthiran has served as Member of Parliament from the Jaffna District from 2015 to 2024, and ...
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is the Bar Association in Sri Lanka, established in 1974.The institute amalgamated the Bar Council of Sri Lanka which represented the Advocates and Law Society of Sri Lanka which represented the Proctors, following which both branches were merged into a group of practitioners called Attorneys-At-Law under the Justice Law No. 44 of 1973 .
Southern Development Authority of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka Accounting & Auditing Standard Monitoring Board; Sri Lanka Council for Agricultural Research Policy; Sri Lanka Export Development Board; Sri Lanka Foundation Institute; Sri Lanka Institute of Advance Technical Education; Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration
Saliya Pieris, PC is a Sri Lankan lawyer, and former President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka. Pieris is an Eisenhower Fellow. He is also an alumnus of the Dealing with the Past (DwP) Programme, Switzerland and IVLP, USA. He began his career as a prosecutor in the Attorney General’s Department.
Thurairaja was appointed to the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka in September 2016, becoming the first Indian Tamil to be appointed to the court. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] In October 2018 the Constitutional Council recommended that Thurairaja be appointed to the Supreme Court . [ 10 ]