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President appoints 21 Judges to Supreme Court & Court of Appeal

01 Dec 2020

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today appointed 21 new Judges to the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. Six Judges of the Supreme Court, the new Chairman of the Court of Appeal and 14 new Judges of the Court of Appeal were sworn in before the President at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon. The new Judges of the Supreme Court are A.H.M. Dilip Nawaz, Kumudini Wickramasinghe, Anthony Lalith Shiran Gunaratne, Janak de Silva, Arachchige Achala Uthpalavarna Wengappuli and Mahinda Abeysinghe Samayawardena. Justice Arjuna Obeysekera was sworn in as the new Chairman of the Court of Appeal. The 14 new Judges of the Court of Appeal are; 01: Menaka Wijesundera 02: D.N.Samarakoon 03: M.Prasantha de Silva 04: M.T.M.Lafaar 05: C. Pradeep Keerthisinghe 06: Sampath B. Abhayakoon 07: M.S.K.B. Wijeratne 08: S.U.B. Karaliyadda 09: R. Gurusinghe 10: G.A.D.Ganepola 11: K.K.A.V.Swarnadhipathi 12: Mayadunne Koraya 13: Prabhaharan Kumararatnam and 14: W.N.N.P. Iddawala.


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