Sri Lanka: Attorney General Dept. Says No To De-Facto CJ
( January 19, 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Attorney General’s (AG) Department has uninvited thede facto Chief Justice Mohan Peiris from the department’s 130th Anniversary celebrations.
According to sources the AG’s department took the decision following a resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL). The lawyers association decided that when Peiris began his address the President of the BASL and several senior lawyers would walk out in a show of protest.
