{"id":93251,"date":"2019-09-23T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=93251"},"modified":"2019-09-23T13:11:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T20:11:52","slug":"northern-lawyers-to-boycott-court-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/09\/23\/northern-lawyers-to-boycott-court-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern lawyers to boycott Court tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Lawyers in the Northern Province have decided to boycott Court proceedings tomorrow (24) in protest over the defying of a Court order delivered by the Mullaitivu Magistrate, in connection with the last rites of Ven. Kolampe Medhalankra Thera and attack on Mullaitivu lawyer Sukash today (23).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Informed sources said that Mullaitivu Magistrate Lenin Kumar ordered that the Buddhist monk&#8217;s remains not be cremated at the disputed Neeravi Pillaiyar Temple premises but to perform the cremation at the beach side near the Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the Court order was defied and a group of monks led by Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera and some of his followers had cremated the remains of the deceased monk at the prohibited site, informed sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorney-at-Law Sukash, attached to the Mullaitivu Bar was attacked by an individual when he appealed to Gnanasara Thera to obey the Court order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the incident in Mullaitivu, the lawyers from all areas of the Northern Province have decided to boycott their Court duties stating that Court order has been defied and the Magistrate&#8217;s directive has not been respected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the Northern lawyers have also pointed out the attack carried out on lawyer Sukash of Mullaitivu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Court cases in the Northern Province are expected to come to a standstill tomorrow following the protest by the lawyers, sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mullaitivu lawyers have also planned to stage a demonstration today at the Mullaitivu Court premises, demanding action against those who had defied the Court order with regard to the cremation of the Buddhist monk, sources added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today Lawyers in the Northern Province have decided to boycott Court proceedings tomorrow (24) in protest over the defying of a Court order delivered by the Mullaitivu Magistrate, in connection with the last rites of Ven. Kolampe Medhalankra Thera and attack on Mullaitivu lawyer Sukash today (23). Informed sources said that Mullaitivu Magistrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judiciary","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93251","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=93251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}