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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Make world a better place" data-source="post: 14273346" data-attributes="member: 455090"><img src="http://www.adaderana.lk/news_images/1883479987mohanpeiris1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                 Mohan Peiris sworn in as new Chief Justice            Former Attorney General Mohan Peiris was sworn in as the 44th Chief  Justice of Sri Lanka a short while ago. He was sworn in before  President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees.       Mohan Peiris is a former Attorney General of Sri Lanka. He was  educated at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo and Royal College Colombo,  where he won colours in cricket. Thereafter he entered the Sri Lanka Law  College and was called to the Bar in 1975, starting his legal practice  under senior lawyers D. R. P. Gunatilleke and Daya Perera, PC.  Thereafter he enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England  and Wales in 1978.       In 1981 he joined the Attorney General’s Department as a State  Counsel, later becoming a Senior State Counsel serving for over 15  years. During this time he trained at the National Institute of Trial  Advocacy at Harvard Law School, the Centre for Police and Criminal  Justice Studies at Jesus College, Cambridge and at George Washington  University.       He specialized in original and appellate courts in the areas of  inter alia, administrative law, commercial law, land law, fundamental  rights, industrial law, injunctions and criminal law and as an  arbitrator. He was the Chairman of the Board of Examiners for the  Intermediate Examination and Examiner of the Sri Lanka Law College, a  visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo,  Deputy President of the Sri Lanka Bar Association (BASL) and a member of  the Sri Lankan Delegation to the Universal Periodic review at the 8th  Session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.       His wife Priyanthi is also an Attorney-at-Law.</blockquote>

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