{"id":55798,"date":"2016-06-20T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55798"},"modified":"2016-06-20T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T20:49:57","slug":"justice-for-all-animals-need-of-the-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/06\/20\/justice-for-all-animals-need-of-the-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for all Animals &#8211; need of the hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Senaka Weeraratna\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dharma Voices for Animals<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If a lawyer is unable to extend justice to animals who are eternally seeking freedom and liberty from the inhumanity and injustice of humans then the legal training of such a lawyer in a holistic sense is not worth a tuppence.<\/p>\n<p>If we cannot see the injustice committed on animals day after day almost everywhere man inhabits then it begins to raise questions about our own sense of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The most noble form of advocacy is when you plead on behalf of those who cannot articulate their pain and suffering, and cannot even dream of paying you back.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that our law schools fail to instill this ethic in our law students\u00a0they remain morally diminished notwithstanding the facade and hyperbole of providing a splendid legal education.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers must begin their careers with the fundamental thought to provide advocacy services whenever and wherever required to non &#8211; human animals upon the conviction\u00a0that animals too like humans have a moral entitlement to both compassion and justice from humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Senaka Weeraratna<\/p>\n<p>Dharma Voices for Animals<\/p>\n<p>(Colombo, Sri Lanka Chapter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senaka Weeraratna\u00a0Dharma Voices for Animals If a lawyer is unable to extend justice to animals who are eternally seeking freedom and liberty from the inhumanity and injustice of humans then the legal training of such a lawyer in a holistic sense is not worth a tuppence. If we cannot see the injustice committed on animals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798","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=55798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}