Justice Sri Skandaraja, judicial hearings and the path we trod
Wednesday 05th February 2014Last week at the Colombo General Cemetery we attended the funeral of Justice S. Sri Skandaraja, the President of the Court of Appeal. Several hundred mourners braved the mid-day sun to salute the memory of a man who had given a lifetime of service to the legal system of this country, a good number of those years as an employee of the State.
A simple God-fearing man whose conduct best epitomised, at least in respect of one case before him, the famous Latin legal phrase which translates to “let justice be done though the heavens fall”; in other words, justice must be realised regardless of the consequences.
Controversial affair
