Is our Parliament speaker an Ass ? -so abysmally ignorant of the laws, Lawyers abroad ask
(Lanka-e-News -10.Dec.2012, 2.30PM) Lawyers who are abroad have questioned with grave concern whether the speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka is such a mocker and Ass that he does not know the elementary laws. Legal luminaries in UK and US speaking to Lanka e news asked this question following the failure of the SL
December 9, 2012, 7:53 pm2, 7:53 pm speaker to take appropriate action adhering to the laws after the opposition members of the Select Committee withdrew from it on the ground that the impeachment inquiry was not being conducted duly and impartially.
The first step the speaker should take as soon as the opposition members have withdrawn from the Select Committee for whatever reason is to inform the leaders of those parties to fill up those vacancies , and not to carry on the proceedings ignoring that indispensable requirement.
Only when the vacancies are not filled after notice is so given , the speaker can take a decision whether or not to go ahead despite the vacancies .Hence , if the speaker had allowed the proceedings to go on without following this procedure and the Select Committee to take unilateral decisions in the absence of the opposition representatives , such decisions are invalid in law and illegal , the lawyers pointed out. Therefore they were naturally forced to ask the question ,is the speaker of the Parliament (a sublime Institution) , a goof or a goon ? like some of the Parliament Govt. members of the Select Committee who recently betrayed their ignorance of the basics of the laws in public on this impeachment motion by asking stupid questions, while others behaved like street urchins shouting hoarse to stifle and suppress opposition views founded on valid grounds.
In other words has the brutal lawless MaRa regime been permitted to go this far by the docile and gullible people of this country to plunge the Parliament , a supreme people’s representative body to this lowliest disgraceful level ?
The lawyers further questioned , assuming that the Select Committee (despite its flaws and lapses) is a ‘court’ , and when four of its representative members walk out of it expressing loss of faith in it , how can the defendant be expected to repose faith in it ?
To illustrate this point , they cited a case where some of the judges of the constituent panel leaves the court expressing disgust over the wrongful manner in which the case is being heard . In such an event , how can any faith be reposed in that panel? they asked. It is for the speaker to carry out his tasks duly in such circumstances. In this instance , the speaker had not taken any action in that direction let alone thought about it.
How can a speaker of Parliament who is the brother of the architect ( two in one or one in two in evil) of this foul machination to impeach or rather deliberately intimidate and unduly persecute (not duly prosecute) the chief justice be expected to conduct himself any the better?
(Lanka-e-News -10.Dec.2012, 2.30PM) Lawyers who are abroad have questioned with grave concern whether the speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka is such a mocker and Ass that he does not know the elementary laws. Legal luminaries in UK and US speaking to Lanka e news asked this question following the failure of the SL December 9, 2012, 7:53 pm2, 7:53 pm speaker to take appropriate action adhering to the laws after the opposition members of the Select Committee withdrew from it on the ground that the impeachment inquiry was not being conducted duly and impartially.
The first step the speaker should take as soon as the opposition members have withdrawn from the Select Committee for whatever reason is to inform the leaders of those parties to fill up those vacancies , and not to carry on the proceedings ignoring that indispensable requirement.
Only when the vacancies are not filled after notice is so given , the speaker can take a decision whether or not to go ahead despite the vacancies .Hence , if the speaker had allowed the proceedings to go on without following this procedure and the Select Committee to take unilateral decisions in the absence of the opposition representatives , such decisions are invalid in law and illegal , the lawyers pointed out. Therefore they were naturally forced to ask the question ,is the speaker of the Parliament (a sublime Institution) , a goof or a goon ? like some of the Parliament Govt. members of the Select Committee who recently betrayed their ignorance of the basics of the laws in public on this impeachment motion by asking stupid questions, while others behaved like street urchins shouting hoarse to stifle and suppress opposition views founded on valid grounds.
In other words has the brutal lawless MaRa regime been permitted to go this far by the docile and gullible people of this country to plunge the Parliament , a supreme people’s representative body to this lowliest disgraceful level ?
The lawyers further questioned , assuming that the Select Committee (despite its flaws and lapses) is a ‘court’ , and when four of its representative members walk out of it expressing loss of faith in it , how can the defendant be expected to repose faith in it ?
To illustrate this point , they cited a case where some of the judges of the constituent panel leaves the court expressing disgust over the wrongful manner in which the case is being heard . In such an event , how can any faith be reposed in that panel? they asked. It is for the speaker to carry out his tasks duly in such circumstances. In this instance , the speaker had not taken any action in that direction let alone thought about it.
How can a speaker of Parliament who is the brother of the architect ( two in one or one in two in evil) of this foul machination to impeach or rather deliberately intimidate and unduly persecute (not duly prosecute) the chief justice be expected to conduct himself any the better?
