Lawyers for Democracy
Lawyers for Democracy (LfD), raises serious concerns with
the process that has commenced to impeach the Chief Justice of Sri
Lanka, Hon. Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake. The impeachment follows in the
wake of several other attempts in recent times to interfere and
intimidate the judiciary, most recent incident being the attack against
the Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) in October 2012.
These incidents, now culminated with the attempt to impeach are a
direct attack against maintaining an independent judiciary, a
fundamental element in a functioning democracy. LfD urges that the
process to impeach meets basic principles of rule of law and natural
justice and ensure that the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka be provided with a
due process and there be justice.
