{"id":150890,"date":"2025-07-23T14:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150890"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T21:59:06","slug":"preethi-padman-surasena-approved-as-the-new-chief-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/07\/23\/preethi-padman-surasena-approved-as-the-new-chief-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"PREETHI PADMAN SURASENA APPROVED AS THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Supreme Court Judge Preethi Padman Surasena has been unanimously approved as the new Chief Justice of Sri Lanka by the Constitutional Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was made today (22) during a meeting chaired by Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nomination was submitted by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday (21), recommending Justice Surasena for the top judicial post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Justice Surasena brings decades of legal and judicial experience to the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Supreme Court Judge Preethi Padman Surasena has been unanimously approved as the new Chief Justice of Sri Lanka by the Constitutional Council. The decision was made today (22) during a meeting chaired by Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne. The nomination was submitted by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday (21), recommending Justice Surasena [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150890","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=150890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}