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Neethiya 21st anniversary volume launched

The 21st anniversary volume of Neethiya was launched on May 24, by presenting its first copy to the Chief Justice. Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, by a member of the Editorial Board.

Co-incidentally, it was on May 23, 2012, that Upali A. Gooneratne PC completed 40 years of active practice at the Bar. He became the first lawyer of the Republic of Sri Lanka, when he was enrolled as an Advocate on May 23, 1972, (the day after Sri Lanka became a Republic), before a Bench of the Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice H.N.G. Fernando.

One of his outstanding contributions to the legal fraternity was the publication of Neethiya with his personal funds. It was first launched with the presentation of the Inaugural Issue to the then Chief Justice.

Parinda Ranasinghe on November 15, 1990.

Gooneratne, devoted over twenty one of his forty years at the Bar to the uninterrupted publication of Neethiya in Sinhala, for the benefit of thousands of lawyers, judges, law students and others interested in the law.

He also spent the whole of those four decades for the cause of professional legal education of several generations of law students.

He also served the Bar organizations both locally and abroad for 35 years, as Secretary General of the Asian Legal Research Institute in Japan in 1977, as Secretary General of the All Asia bar Association in 1981, Deputy Secretary General, IBA (1992-1998) and as a Member of the Executive Council of LAWASIA (1991-2005), in addition to having served the BASL as its Secretary, Vice President and the youngest President.

Former members of the Chamber, including some living abroad, felicitated him at Hotel Galadari in May 2009 when he had completed only 37 years at the Bar.

At the launch of Volume 20 last year, when it was intimated to the then Chief Justice Asoka de Silva that Neethiya would cease publication from then onwards, the Chief Justice remarked that Neethiya should continue for at least another twenty five years," which received publicity in the media. The present Chief Justice advised that Neethiya should continue at least up to its 25th Anniversary.

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