{"id":63394,"date":"2017-02-14T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63394"},"modified":"2017-02-14T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T23:21:56","slug":"political-party-behind-appointment-of-new-hc-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/14\/political-party-behind-appointment-of-new-hc-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Political party behind appointment of new HC judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well well-lg\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"row\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0<strong>Thilanka Kanakarathna\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<p>The government has made contradictory statements regarding the appointment of High Court Judge Ramanathan Kannan making one wonder whether it was a political appointment, former MP G L Peiris said today.<\/p>\n<p>He said he had previously practised as a lawyer in the Baticaloa courts.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Minister Wejeyadasa Rajapakshe had said recently that political party was keen on appointing the particular person to the position,&#8221; Mr. Peiris said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Judicial Services Association (JSA) had met the Chief Justice who had reportedly said Mr. Kannan was nominated by President Maithripala Sirisena.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Justice had revealed that the president appointed Mr. Kannan as a HC judge on a request made by the Sri Lanka Bar Association but it later claimed that it had not made such a request. It is a mystery how the appointment was made,\u201d he said. <em><strong>(Thilanka Kanakarathna)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/image_1487088924-4c42f8c21f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/article\/Political-party-behind-appointment-of-new-HC-judge-123844.html#sthash.nP0Yv0f4.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Thilanka Kanakarathna\u00a0Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government has made contradictory statements regarding the appointment of High Court Judge Ramanathan Kannan making one wonder whether it was a political appointment, former MP G L Peiris said today. He said he had previously practised as a lawyer in the Baticaloa courts. Justice Minister Wejeyadasa Rajapakshe had said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sirisena","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63394","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=63394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}