Media Unit, Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program

Lawyer Aruna Laksiri and another person filed cases in the Supreme Court to correct the errors in the Constitution and tried to correct them. In those cases, they had to pay the  millions in legal fees to the state and the lawyer was ordered to pay 500,000 rupees as legal fees.

Lawyer Aruna Laksiri has requested the following information from the Information Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism.

1. 1. Has the former Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya been appointed as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations?

1.2. If the answer is “Yes” or “Appointed”, when was it?

2. If the answer to question 1 above is “Yes” or “appointed”, were the facts that the 22nd Constitutional Amendment Bill was published in the Gazette on 18.07.2024, admitting by the Attorney General that there were 2 errors in Article 83 of the Constitution, before appointing former Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya to Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations who had imposed hundreds of thousands of rupees in legal fees which persons who had filed cases in the Supreme Court before 18.07.2024 to correct errors in the Constitution by claiming that there are errors investigated?

(A copy of the first page of the same Gazette is also attached herewith.)
http://neethiyalk.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-lawyer-who-paid-500000-rupees-as.html?m=1

Translation of the Article
* ලක්ෂ 5ක නඩු ගාස්තු ගෙවූ නීතීඥවරයා, හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ නිත්‍ය නියෝජිත ලෙස පත් කර තිබේද ඇතුලු තොරතුරු විමසයි.
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Media Unit, Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program. (2025.05.15)