{"id":154974,"date":"2026-03-02T16:42:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=154974"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:42:53","slug":"do-we-enjoy-independence-of-judiciary-in-sri-lanka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/03\/02\/do-we-enjoy-independence-of-judiciary-in-sri-lanka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DO WE ENJOY INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY IN SRI LANKA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0Sarath Wijesinghe- a former Secretary of the Bar Association \u2013 former Ambassador to UAE and Israel<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>(Not by passing arbitrary judgments does a man become wise? A wise man is one who investigates both right and the wrong. He who does not judge others arbitrarily according to the truth, that sagacious man is a guardian of law and is called just. One is not wise because one speaks much. He who is peaceful, friendly and fearless is called wise. A man is not versed in Dhamma because he speaks much. He who, after hearing a little Dhamma, realizes its truth directly and is not heedless of it is truly versed in Dhammapada.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fbuJHY8KMz\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/15\/do-we-enjoy-independence-of-judiciary-in-sri-lanka\/\">DO WE ENJOY INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY IN SRI LANKA?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;DO WE ENJOY INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY IN SRI LANKA?&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/15\/do-we-enjoy-independence-of-judiciary-in-sri-lanka\/embed\/#?secret=4SvVed4bwv#?secret=fbuJHY8KMz\" data-secret=\"fbuJHY8KMz\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Sarath Wijesinghe- a former Secretary of the Bar Association \u2013 former Ambassador to UAE and Israel (Not by passing arbitrary judgments does a man become wise? A wise man is one who investigates both right and the wrong. He who does not judge others arbitrarily according to the truth, that sagacious man is a guardian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarath-wijesinghe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154974","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=154974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154975,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154974\/revisions\/154975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}