{"id":69160,"date":"2013-01-12T10:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T10:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=69160"},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:56:21","slug":"irida-lankadeepa-is-lying-chief-justices-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/irida-lankadeepa-is-lying-chief-justices-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Irida Lankadeepa Is lying &#8211; Chief Justice&#8217;s Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Certain Media ( Irida Lankadeepa January 13, 2013 which is released today) have stated that the Lawyers for the Chief Justice requested time for the Chief Justice to remain till April 30, 2013 and the Chief Justice will voluntarily retire thereafter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Neelakandan+and+Neelakandan&amp;x=8&amp;y=5\">Lawyers<\/a><\/span> for the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=12&amp;y=1\">Chief Justice<\/a><\/span> have issued a written statement denying this as incorrect and misleading and at the same time has stressed that the Lawyers expected the relevant media to have contacted the Lawyers concerned for verification prior to such publication.<\/p>\n<p>Read the letter sent to Irida Lankadeepa by CJ&#8217;s lawyers\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Lankadeepa-FALSE-NEWS-ITEM.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/irida-lankadeepa-is-lying-chief-justices-lawyers\/capture-lankadeepa\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69164\" title=\"Capture Lankadeepa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/irida-lankadeepa-is-lying-chief-justices-lawyers\/capture-lankadeepa2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-69165\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-69165\" title=\"Capture Lankadeepa2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa2.jpg 896w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa2-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Capture-Lankadeepa2-800x192.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":69164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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