{"id":148782,"date":"2015-08-11T03:33:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=148782"},"modified":"2015-08-11T03:35:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:05:02","slug":"immediately-rescind-sir-desmonds-appointment-sumanthiran-tells-govt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/immediately-rescind-sir-desmonds-appointment-sumanthiran-tells-govt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Immediately Rescind Sir Desmond&#8217;s Appointment: Sumanthiran Tells Govt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaffna district TNA candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=M.A.+Sumanthiran&amp;x=9&amp;y=2\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">M.A. Sumanthiran<\/span><\/a> has today called on the government to immediately rescind Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Desmond+de+Silva&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Desmond de Silva<\/span><\/a>&#8216;s appointment in light of the pending investigation in respect of that very appointment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121135\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sumanthiran-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sumanthiran-.jpg\" alt=\"Sumanthiran \" width=\"215\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-121135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumanthiran<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Issuing a\u00a0statement Sumanthirsn said; &#8220;The press has recently reported that the Bar Standards Board has initiated a formal investigation into the professional conduct of Sir Desmond de Silva QC with respect to his role in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I raised the question of Sir Desmond&#8217;s professional conduct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/get-it-right-now-or-pay-the-price\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in Parliament on 17 March 2015<\/span><\/a> and urged the government itself to forward a complaint to the Bar Standards Board. Though the government failed to take any action in this regard, a complaint was forwarded by a non-governmental organization. The government simply cannot continue to retain the Advisory Panel chaired by Sir Desmond, particularly given the initiation of an inquiry into Sir Desmond&#8217;s acceptance of that very appointment. Its continued retention of Sir Desmond deals a devastating blow to good governance and the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":128994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6980,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-sri-lanka-parliamentary-elections-2015","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Immediately Rescind Sir Desmond&#039;s Appointment: Sumanthiran Tells Govt. - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/immediately-rescind-sir-desmonds-appointment-sumanthiran-tells-govt-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Immediately Rescind Sir Desmond&#039;s Appointment: Sumanthiran Tells Govt. - 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