{"id":81869,"date":"2013-04-12T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=81869"},"modified":"2013-04-22T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T18:48:08","slug":"final-report-removal-of-cj-bandaranayake-was-unlawful-international-bar-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/final-report-removal-of-cj-bandaranayake-was-unlawful-international-bar-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Report: Removal Of CJ Bandaranayake Was Unlawful &#8211; International Bar Association"},"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>Following the release of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/removal-of-cj-bandaranayake-was-unlawful-sri-lanka-facing-constitutional-crisis-concludes-ibahri\/\">Executive Summary<\/a><\/span> of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=International+Bar+Association&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">International Bar Association<\/a><\/span>\u00a0report\u00a0<em>A Crisis of Legitimacy: The Impeachment of Chief Justice Bandaranayake and the Erosion of the Rule of Law in Sri Lanka, <\/em>the\u00a0full\u00a0report has been published today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59789\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/chief-justice-to-filing-a-contempt-of-court-action\/chief-justice-shirani-bandaranayake1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59789\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59789\" title=\"Chief-Justice-Shirani-Bandaranayake1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Chief-Justice-Shirani-Bandaranayake1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chief Justice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The removal from office in Sri Lanka of Chief Justice\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=13&amp;y=7\">Bandaranayake<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was unlawful, is undermining public confidence in the rule of law, and threatening to eviscerate the country\u2019s judiciary as an independent guarantor of constitutional rights states the Executive Summary of an\u00a0International Bar Association\u2019s Human Rights Institute\u00a0(IBAHRI) report released two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sternford Moyo, IBAHRI Co-Chair commented, \u2018We call upon the Government of Sri Lanka to take immediate steps to reverse the impeachment and replacement of Chief Justice Bandaranayake and to work to rebuild the independence of the judiciary and the legal profession in the country, as a matter of absolute urgency.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Sri-Lanka-report-April-2013.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":59789,"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-81869","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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