{"id":157253,"date":"2026-07-11T17:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=157253"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:03:18","slug":"judiciary-association-rejects-government-proposal-to-extend-retirement-age-for-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/07\/11\/judiciary-association-rejects-government-proposal-to-extend-retirement-age-for-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Judiciary Association Rejects Government Proposal to Extend Retirement Age for Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Lankacnews<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The government&#8217;s initiative to extend the retirement age for judges faced a resounding defeat during a special general meeting of the Judicial Services Association (JSA) held today, November 11. The meeting took place at the Kadawatha Magistrate&#8217;s Court premises, where attending judges unanimously expressed their opposition to the proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports indicate that none of the members voted in favor of extending the retirement age, highlighting a strong consensus against the government&#8217;s move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent days, the judiciary has experienced significant unrest regarding this proposal, leading to calls for the resignation of the association&#8217;s president, Prasanna Amarasekera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the executive committee of the association and Secretary Suranga Munasinghe viewed the proposal as a severe threat to the independence of the judiciary, and actively opposed it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This meeting, which was originally scheduled to be held in Colombo, was shifted to Kadawatha at the last minute due to lack of permission for the initial venue, illustrating the pressure surrounding this contentious issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lankacnews The government&#8217;s initiative to extend the retirement age for judges faced a resounding defeat during a special general meeting of the Judicial Services Association (JSA) held today, November 11. The meeting took place at the Kadawatha Magistrate&#8217;s Court premises, where attending judges unanimously expressed their opposition to the proposal. Reports indicate that none of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253","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=157253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157254,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157253\/revisions\/157254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}