The Minister Justice, Public Administration, Provincial Councils, Local Government and Labour is an appointment in the
Cabinet of Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, the Cabinet of Ministers is the council of senior ministers responsible and answerable to the Parliament of Sri Lanka. The President is a member of the cabinet and its head.
The Dissanayake cabinet is the incumbent central gov ...
.
The constitution defines that it is mandatory for a minister of the cabinet to be styled as the Minister of Justice. From 1947 to 1970, per section 48 of the constitution, the Minister of Justice was one of two Ministers appointed from the
Senate of Ceylon
The Senate was the upper chamber of the Parliament of Ceylon, parliament of Dominion of Ceylon, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1947 by the Soulbury Commission. The Senate was appointed and indirectly elected rather than directly elected. It ...
, as such appointments have been held by
Advocate
An advocate is a professional in the field of law. List of country legal systems, Different countries and legal systems use the term with somewhat differing meanings. The broad equivalent in many English law–based jurisdictions could be a ba ...
s.
It succeeded the office of
Legal Secretary of Ceylon which existed from 1932 to 1947.
List of Justice Ministers
;Parties
See also
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Ministry of Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional Reforms
References
External links
Ministry of Justice, Prisons Affairs and Constitutional ReformsGovernment of Sri Lanka
{{Ministries of Sri Lanka
Justice
In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the ''Institutes (Justinian), Inst ...