{"id":139175,"date":"2023-12-21T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T00:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=139175"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T00:31:27","slug":"maithri-panagoda-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/12\/21\/maithri-panagoda-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Maithri Panagoda book launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>In October 2022,\u00a0Maithri Panagoda (Partner) published <em>Pursuing a Vision of Justice\u201d,<\/em>\u00a0a collection of 25 essays by judges, academics, historians, diplomats, friends, and family. The book, which was officially launched last year in the NSW Parliament House, shares stories from Maithri\u2019s early years in Sri Lanka and his\u00a045-year legal career in Australia.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW, Supreme Court Justice Dina Yehia SC, and Carroll &amp; O\u2019Dea Lawyers former\u00a0Managing\u00a0Partner\u00a0Michael O\u2019Dea KCSG, AM spoke at the launch.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Please  watch the recently made available video of the launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MP Book Launch 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNs327Fwzts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna In October 2022,\u00a0Maithri Panagoda (Partner) published Pursuing a Vision of Justice\u201d,\u00a0a collection of 25 essays by judges, academics, historians, diplomats, friends, and family. The book, which was officially launched last year in the NSW Parliament House, shares stories from Maithri\u2019s early years in Sri Lanka and his\u00a045-year legal career in Australia.\u00a0\u00a0Her Excellency the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}