Justice Yasantha Kodagoda has been sworn in as a Supreme Court Judge Monday 3, the President’s Media Division announced.
Justice A.H.M. Dilip Nawaz has been sworn in as the new President of the Court of Appeals.
They were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo yesterday (03).
The Constitutional Council (CC) had last month approved the recommendation to appoint President’s Counsel (PC) Yasantha Kodagoda as a Supreme Court justice and Dilip Nawaz as President of the Appeal Court.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had made the recommendations to the Constitutional Council.
Justice Kodagoda was appointed the President of Appeals Court on the 28th of March last year and the President had recommended his name to fill the position vacated by the demise of Supreme Court Justice Prasanna Jayawardena PC.
He was called to the Bar as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on 28 October 1988. Prior to being appointed by the President of Sri Lanka as the President of the Court of Appeal in March 2019 (following a unanimous approval of his nomination by the Constitutional Council), he served as an Additional Solicitor General of the Attorney General's Department.
He has 30+ years of experience as a Public Prosecutor and Legal Advisor to the Government of Sri Lanka
The Constitutional Council had also approved the appointment of A.H.M Dilip Nawaz as the President of the Court of Appeal, which is left vacant following the appointment of PC Yasantha Kodagoda as a Justice of Supreme Court.
Mr. Nawaz was appointed the Acting President of the Appeals Court on the 20th of January.
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