Age 70 Limit For Lawyers: AHRC Condemns De Facto CJ’s Announcement
Erasing the memory of law, an independent judiciary and the legal profession-
November 18, 2013 |
De facto Chief Justice Mohan Pieris
The announcement by the de facto chief justice, Mohan Pieris, to introduce regulations in order to limit the maximum age to practice as a lawyer to 70 and to impose further regulations for the renewal of the licenses of lawyers every two years, comes as no surprise. The government’s aim is to bring the military into all areas of life and to spread an authoritarian rule through the entire fabric of society. This implies the uprooting of the legal system as one based on rule of law and the independence of the judiciary to one which is regulated by the executive. The task assigned to the de facto CJ is to reshape all aspects of legal and judicial practices to suit this radical transformation towards a completely controlled system in which the executive can do whatever it wishes, irrespective of what the consequences are to the legal rights of the individual citizens of Sri Lanka.
An independent judiciary and the legal profession
( November 18, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The announcement by the de facto chief justice, Mohan Pieris, to introduce regulations in order to limit the maximum age to practice as a lawyer to 70 and to impose further regulations for the renewal of the licenses of lawyers every two years, comes as no surprise. 