Lawyers’ Collective calls for rejection of new CJ appointment
The Lawyers’ Collective has requested that the judges of the Supreme Court refuse to accept an appointment of a chief justice, refuse to recognise any person appointed to the office of the chief justice and refuse to sit with a person appointed as the chief justice.
Issuing a letter to all judges of the Supreme Court, the Lawyers’ Collective reiterated that such an appointment would go against the constitution which the Bar has sworn to uphold.
The Lawyers’ Collective notes that at a time the judiciary and the Bar of Sri Lanka is facing the gravest crisis in the history of its existence, the Bar feels that it is their duty to call upon all Supreme Court judges to act to protect the independence of the judiciary, which is an ‘intangible heritage’ of the people of this country.
Courtesy: News First
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This is a good decision. No one should accept the new CJ post.
This impeachment is a black mark for Sri Lankan political history.
The Fijian dictator, Col Banimarama, could not find a Chief Justice. He imported a Chief Justice from Sri Lanka.
If a replacement for the impeached Chief Justice cannot be found, an option would be to import a Chief Justice, from Fiji or from Saudi Arabia or last but not the least, from China.
Let us hope that all the Judges will join hands together as one body to reject the new appointment of the CJ by the Executive President. Let us hope there won’t be a judas among these judges to betray this united just call??? Can not the judges be bought over by the State by promising sun moon and the stars for them to accept the new CJ? This is the most million Doller question opened for us to think. So let us await and see???