ASHRAFF.A.SAMAD
COLOMBO ; The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) unanimously elected Senior lawyer Kaushalya Nawaratne as its president on Saturday, March 25.
Kaushalya Nawaratne assured that the BASL would continue to function independently.
Senior attorney Kaushalya Navaratne was inducted as the 27th President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) at the 49th Annual Convocation of the BASL held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH) on Saturday .
He succeeds President’s Counsel Saliya Pieris. Navaratne was unanimously elected the BASL President on January 11. Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya PC and Attorney General Sanjaya Rajaratnam PC graced the event.
Nawaratne pledged to stand firmly against any undue interference to the judiciary. He said that protecting the independence of the judiciary is important to democracy. He assured that the Bar would uphold the Constitution and protect the rule of law, while defending human rights all the time.
