FR Cases To Have Standing Order 78A Declared Illegal: Petitioners Object To Intervention Bid By A Citizen In Contempt Of SC And CA
June 11, 2013
The Colombo Telegraph is reliably informed that a person by the name of ‘Koggala Wellala Bandara’ claiming to be acting ‘in the public interest’, has filed papers to be allowed to intervene in fundamental rights cases before the Supreme Court challenging the validity of Standing Order 78A which was used as a purported basis to conduct a so-called impeachment of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, in which leave to proceed had been granted after hearing the counsel for the petitioners and the Attorney General who at that stage had objected to the grant of leave.
Mohan Pieris
SC (FR) 665, 666, 667 and 672/2012, fundamental rights cases now required properly speaking to be set down for argument in open court, challenge the validity of Standing Order 78A which was used as a purported basis to conduct a so-called impeachment of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake and install Mohan Pieris (PC) as the de-facto Chief Justice by force, are due to be taken up in the Supreme Court today (11.06.2013) to consider the application to intervene. SC (FR) 23/2013 challenging Mohan Pieris being substituted for Bandaranayake is also due to be only mentioned.The petitioners who obtained leave to proceed have pointed out to court that the application to intervene is worded in a way that is disrespectful and contemptuous of Supreme Court judges, and that the person seeking to intervene should be punished for contempt of both the Supreme Court and the Appeal Court.
