No objections to appointment of High Court Judge R. Kannan: BASL
By T. Farook Thajudeen
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, through a circular, stated that there was much speculation relating to the appointment of Ramaiah Kannan as a Judge of the Jaffna High Court.
In the circular the BASL stated that for over a year representations were made by lawyers, especially from the Eastern Province, over an acute shortage of High Court Judges in the Northern and Eastern Provinces who were conversant in Tamil, resulting in a backlog and delay in th