The Conflict Of Interest And What The CJ Has Not Answered

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1. CA Chandraprema,-December 31, 2012 

   What you have to point out is that the president, CJ-B and her husband are three parties are guilty of immoral behavior. The president appointed her as CJ knowing she was not qualified even to be a SC judge. He gave her husband jobs to use it as a bait to get favors from CJ-B. CJ-B knew it was wrong to let her husband accept top jobs form the president. Bribing MP with minister’s jobs is politics. But bribing a CJ indirectly and directly is not politics. It is illegal.

   The moral decay and corruption in the country has reached from CJ level to peon level.

   Do you think the MPs in parliament are people’s reps? These are mostly crooks from party lists.

   Even people like Nalin de Silva has gone wrong. What will be a big problem for the president is that with all the guilt of CJ-B, she should be removed by following a procedure based on the principles of natural justice. As a person who supported MahindaR from the time he was fighting for the leader of the opposition, I feel sad that he gave an opportunity for those who want to derail his rule to sabotage him using UNHR and the Commonwealth etc. This is a case of getting snakes wondering yoke under ones garments.

   As a man who has become a favorite of the govt. you are in a position to tell the president that it is better to escape from this mess in a democratic manner. All the yes men, including the golden legal brain GL Peiris, are putting the president in trouble. Stories like the UNP was the one which first wanted to remove CJ will not work this time.

   The only person who talk sense is H. L. Gunasekera. All others are writing either a yes-man stories or federal-separatism-backing stories. This impeachment case is not either yes or no case. It has many sides.

   
   

   C. Wijeyawickrema - December 31, 2012
   4:25 am
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By C. A. Chandraprema -

CA Chandraprema

As the impeachment drama grinds to a close, we see that the chief justice of this country is to be impeached largely on conflict of interest related issues. Of the three charges that the CJ has been found guilty of by the Parliamentary Select Committeee, two pertain to a conflict of interest.  The conflict of interest has never been an issue that has been widely discussed in this country. As such there are virtually no local precedents that we can draw on. The first charge against the CJ was that using a special power of attorney, she purchased in the names of her sister and brother in law, a flat at Trillium Residencies and then took over a case involving Trillium Residencies that was being heard by a different bench and proceeded to hear the case.  Another charge (No:5) on which the CJ has been found guilty is that she has continued to remain CJ and Chairperson of the Judicial Services Commission in a situation where her husband Pradeep Kariyawasam is a suspect in a case before a magistrate. In her official capacity, the CJ has the power to get down all the documents of the magistrate’s court trying her husband and she also wields powers of transfer, promotion, dismissal and disciplinary control over the magistrate trying her husband.                                               Read More