Are We Heading In The Right Direction?
| by Upul Jayasuriya
Your Lordship Justice Sisira De Abrew is a product of Dharmashoka College, Ambalangoda.
(May 20, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Your Lordship excelled at Law College and obtained classes at the Preliminary and the Final exams. Thereafter you took oaths as an Attorney at Law in 1981 and joined the Attorney General’s Department as a State Counsel in 1982. You were promoted to the rank of Senior State Counsel in 1996. During this period you conducted prosecutions before courts in almost every province. You have also prosecuted numerous jury and non Jury trials. Whilst at the Department you were extensively exposed to both Civil and Criminal fields in the original Courts and in appellate Courts. In addition you had the privilege of supervising such matters as a Senior State Counsel and handled matters of complexity, as well as opinions regarding the constitutionality of Bills.
