Court of Appeal rulings in favour of former CJ challenged

Jayantha de Silva

An application was yesterday filed by an Attorney at Law in the Supreme Court requesting special leave to appeal against two recent Court of Appeal rulings that quashed the decisions of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) which found former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake guilty of misconduct.

Attorney at Law Sumudu Kantha Hewage requested the Supreme Court to set aside the Court of Appeal order pertaining to refusal to consider him as an intervening petitioner against the Court of

Appeal decision pertaining to the issuance of a writ of certiorari quashing the Parliamentary Select Committee ruling in respect of the impeachment motion against the former CJ.

He also moved court to set aside the Court of Appeal decision not to permit the intervening application filed by him praying for the setting aside or reversing the Court of Appeal decision to issue a certiorari writ to quash the findings of the Parliamentary Select Committee.

The petition states that by its decision the Court of Appeal erred and the decision itself is a bad precedent.