Special Bench To Take Up Cases Challenging Substituting Legal CJ With De Facto CJ Mohan Pieris Tomorrow

July 15, 2013

A “Special Bench” to take up the cases challenging the steps taken by the Rajapaksa regime to oust Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake from functioning in her office by adopting the findings of a kangaroo style Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), disregarding and flouting court rulings of the Supreme Court and Appeal Court, the Colombo Telegraph can reveal today.

The following bench has been set up for tomorrow (16.07.2013) ;

Mohan Pieris

COURT ROOM 403                (AT.10.00 AM)

HON. SALEEM MAROOF  (P.C.)  J

HON. CHANDRA EKANAYAKE   J

HON. SATHYA HETTIGE  (P.C.)  J

HON. S. EVA WANASUNDERA  (P.C.)  J

HON. ROHINI MARASINGHE   J

SPECIAL BENCH

TO BE MENTIONED

1   SC   APPLICATION   (FR)   665/2012

SC   APPLICATION   (FR)   666/2012

SC   APPLICATION   (FR)   667/2012

SC   APPLICATION   (FR)   672/2012 WITH

SC   APPLICATION   (FR)    23/2013

2   SC   APPEAL  67/2013  -       WITH

SC   SPECIAL LA 24/2013  – CA 411/2012

FOR LEAVE TO PROCEED

1    SC   APPLICATION   (FR)    23/2013

Several parties asking to intervene in several of these cases are trying to get the disregarded court rulings reversed, in what is seen by many as an effort to try and give some appearance of legitimacy to the locally and internationally widely condemned act of disregard of judicial rulings, with de facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris now in charge of the judiciary.                                     Read More