CJ appears before Parliamentary Select Committee for the second time
Courtesy: News First / Pix by Reuters
Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Banaranayake arrived at the Parliamentary Complex this morning to once again appear before the Parliamentary Select Committee examining the impeachment motion brought against her.
Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake left the Supreme Court Complex at around 9.45 this morning to appear before the Parliamentary Select Committee.
Before her departure she engaged in religious activities.
Our court correspondent noted that venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera invoked blessings on the Chief Justice.
According to our correspondent, members of the legal community had gathered in the Supreme Court premises to express their solidarity with the Chief Justice.
Members of the clergy also engaged in a Sathyagraha.
Another group of protesters who had gathered outside the court complex demonstrated against the Chief Justice and in support of the impeachment.
Meanwhile, a large crowd had gathered near the parliamentary complex disrupting vehicular movement along Parliament Road.
The chief justice arrived at the parliamentary complex at around 10.10 a.m.
Pix by Reuters
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No one is above the law. Let the PSC examine her on the charges against her. She has her defence team. It is not for us to pass judgements.
Nicholas,
The PSc has no legal competence. The CJ is represented by the cream of the legal fraternity in Sri Lanka. Do you believe the members of the PSC (some of whom are Lawyers but have not been in a court house for a long, long time) can discern the evidence presented and make decisions based on the legalistic arguements that are presented?
To Chumpa Mudalige’s comment “Do you believe the members of the PSC can discern the evidence presented and make decisions based on the legalistic arguements that are presented?”
May be not. But then under the Gold standard system of Perliment we are nurturing, we have handed them over with running the entire country includin finance and defence. If they can do that, surely they are good enough to do this. Furthermore, this committee has members from all the parties and I am sure wider world can at least read in print what the two sides have been presenting and make their owns minds and also the brillient people with compentency can pass their opinion too to the wider public. So the fareness of the judgement by the committee can be analysed. Also, In other countries how is the impechment procedure done?
Dear Onlanka administration, Can you please add the spell checker to the field in which we type or allow editing what we have written already? People like me can avoid typographical errors if you do that.
Dear Indra,
Why invoke the assistance of the Administrator for your spelling check when the facility is there in your own computer?It is no doubt an excellent feeling to get your views across sans any spelling and grammatical mistakes.Vide your own blog No.5, penultimate sentence ‘So the fareness…….’ (my computer has underlined the word fareness in red) I feel you would have meant ‘fairness’. So the choice of correct words etc. required for good essay must come with use. You are very good in your repertoire of expressions and ideas,so need not worry about small details.
AUJ, Yes, I can type it in the MS Word and then copy and paste it. But most of the blogging fields have this facility and do the same you mentioned. It underlines the errors in red and you can do the instant correction using thesaurus. I use the same computer for those. So I think it is in the website than in my computer. It will help me and lot more bloggers and will make it easy reading if the Onlanka admin can incorporate the spell check and the thesaurus to the writing field, rather than each blogger have to do it in a separate software.
Dear Indra,
You can use web browser Add-on for this requirement.
for Firefox browser: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/after-the-deadline-spell-and-g/?src=search
Thanks Admin.
Aunty Shirani, the supa chick of the day, we are with you all the way; go for it.