Former SC Judge Ramanathan honoured
 

by Sarath Malalasekera

Former Supreme Court Judge P. Ramanathan was honoured by awarding the title of 'Desamanya' recently.

Judge Ramanathan was educated at St. Joseph's College, Colombo.

He is a graduate, a Barrister-at-Law and a Bencher of Gray's Inn.

He has served in the Attorney General's Department. Thereafter functioned as a Judge of the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.

He was a former Governor of the Western Province, at present Chancellor of the Uva-Wellassa University and is a President of the Medico Legal Association. He is also the President of British Scholars' Association and the Rotary Club.

Judge Ramanathan is a descendant of Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan and a Trustee of the Ponnambalavaneswara Temple in Colombo.

His wife Manohari is a Deputy Legal Draftsman in the Legal Draftsman's Department of the Ministry of Justice.