After imposing hundreds of thousands of rupees as legal fees on those who filed cases regarding constitutional errors before 18.07.2024 while serving as the Chief Justice, the Attorney General has also admitted that there are constitutional errors because published a constitutional amendment in the Gazette on 18.07.2024 to correct two errors of Article 83 of the Constitution and there is a dialogue among several people regarding new legal issues as to whether former Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, who was appointed as Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, would resign from the post.
The Attorney General admitted that there were 2 errors in Article 83 of the Constitution because the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution Bill in the Gazette published on 18.07.2024 under Article 78 of the Constitution to correct them. However, before 18.07.2024, Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya, who had imposed hundreds of thousands of rupees as legal fees on those who filed cases in the Supreme Court to correct errors in the Constitution, had obtained the post of Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations after his retirement. However, if he resigns from that post after these facts were brought to consideration will lead to the correction of the errors in the Constitution.
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* Translation of the Article
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ශ්රී ලංකා නිත්ය නියෝජිත ධූරයට පත් ජයන්ත ජයසූරිය හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු, ඉදිරිපත්වන අලුත් කරුණු මත එම ධූරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වෙයිද?
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Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), AAL, Coordinator, Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Education Program. (2025.05.21)