{"id":73719,"date":"2013-02-14T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73719"},"modified":"2013-02-21T00:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T00:40:33","slug":"council-of-jurists-further-exposed-justice-sir-gavin-lightman-disassociates-himself-from-letter-to-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/council-of-jurists-further-exposed-justice-sir-gavin-lightman-disassociates-himself-from-letter-to-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Council Of Jurists\u2019 Further Exposed: Justice Sir Gavin Lightman Disassociates Himself From Letter To MR"},"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>Justice Gavin Lightman disassociating himsefl\u00a0\u00a0from\u00a0the controversial letter written to President Mahinda Rajapaksa by the International Council of Jurists, supporting the process to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The letter below is sent by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gavin_Lightman_(judge)\">Justice Gavin Lightman<\/a><\/span> to Dr Adish Aggarwala<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73720\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/council-of-jurists-further-exposed-justice-sir-gavin-lightman-disassociates-himself-from-letter-to-mr\/sir-gavin-anthony-lightman\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73720\" title=\"Sir Gavin Anthony Lightman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sir-Gavin-Anthony-Lightman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sir-Gavin-Anthony-Lightman.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sir-Gavin-Anthony-Lightman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sir-Gavin-Anthony-Lightman-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-73720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Gavin Anthony Lightman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dear Adish,<\/p>\n<p>My concern is not the merits of the impeachment of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=13&amp;y=8\">Chief Justice<\/a><\/span> of Sri Lanka,( as to which it is not for me to judge),but the partisan and public involvement of the Association in support of\u00a0 one side to this high profile political dispute without\u00a0 prior consultation with and the agreement of the officers of the Association, and most particularly myself. I agreed to become vice-president of the Association in the understanding that it was formed to promote good relations between the UK and Indian judiciary and legal professions and promote legal education and exchanges.I would not have agreed to join the Association if I had known that it was to involve itself in matters such as this. I must also doubt whether the distinguished foreign\u00a0\u00a0 judges and lawyers who spoke and participated in the Associations conferences would have done so if they had known that the Associations activities would extend to involvement in such a dispute.You however evidently take a different view as to the scope of the permissible activities of the Association.In the circumstances regretfully I have no alternative but to resign as Vice President.I am concerned to disassociate myself from the position taken by you in the name of the Association regarding the impeachment of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and I must authorise others (if they so wish) to publicise this letter and its contents.<\/p>\n<p>Yours<br \/>\nGavin Lightman<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"\u2018Council Of Jurists\u2019 Exposed: Pakistani CJ Disassociates Himself From Letter To MR, British Jurists Have No Connection To The Council\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/council-of-jurists-exposed-pakistani-cj-disassociates-himself-from-letter-to-mr-british-jurists-have-no-connection-to-the-council\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Council Of Jurists\u2019 Exposed: Pakistani CJ Disassociates Himself From Letter To MR, British Jurists Have No Connection To The Council<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":73720,"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-73719","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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