Foes at work! Official encounters between new CJ Peiris, ex-CJ’s lawyers

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By Dharisha Bastians

Fresh from his ceremonial sittings on Wednesday, Chief Justice Mohan Peiris presided over a bench that took up several listed cases before the Supreme Court yesterday.

Several senior lawyers appeared before Chief Justice Mohan Pieris when the day’s listed cases were taken up.

President’s Counsel Romesh De Silva and Attorney-at-Law Saliya Peiris, both lawyers who appeared on behalf of impeached Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake at the Parliamentary Select Committee proceedings and the case filed at the Court of Appeal, came before the Supreme Court bench to fix court dates for the listed cases.

The cases listed for Courtroom 502 were taken up by a three judge bench comprising Chief Justice Pieris and Justices P.A. Ratnayake and Eva Wanasundera.

Senior constitutional lawyer, Sanjeewa Jayawardane PC, also appeared before the same bench when the cases were listed.

Meanwhile, several senior lawyers including Shibly Aziz PC, Nigel Hatch, PC and Sanjeewa Jayawardane, PC were present at the ceremonial sittings of the new Chief Justice on Wednesday

They were among several other lawyers and Supreme Court, Appeals Court and District Court judges who also attended the sittings despite a Bar Association of Sri Lanka boycott in keeping with a resolution passed by the association in December.

Meanwhile, a case filed by the Centre for Policy Alternatives against the appointment of Chief Justice Pieris on grounds that there was no constitutional vacancy for the post came up before a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice S. Marsoof and Justices K. Sripavan and S.I. Imam on Wednesday.

Justice K. Sripavan declined to hear the case. Counsels for the petitioner in the case were Attorneys-at-Law M.A. Sumanthiran, Viran Corea and Suren Fernando.

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