Neville Dunbar Mirahawatte Samarakoon,

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(22 October 1919 – 1990) was a

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n lawyer, who served as the 36th

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from 1977 to 1984. His father was A. C. W. Samarakoon and his mother was Chandrawathi Mirahawatte Kumarihamy. He was educated at

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, then at

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and the Law College, Colombo. He began work as an advocate in 1945, and worked as a Crown Counsel from 1948 to ?195, when he returned to private work. He was made

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in 1968. From 1964 to 1977 he was a member of the Bar Council, and sat on the Disciplinary Board for Lawyers from 1971 to 1974, then again in 1976 and 1977. He was appointed Chief Justice of the

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in 1977, a post he would hold until retiring in 1984. Why no action on judge?
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References

*SAMARAKOON, Hon. Neville Dunbar Mirahawatte. ''Who Was Who 1897–2006''. (2007). 1919 births 1990 deaths Ceylonese Queen's Counsel Chief justices of Sri Lanka Sinhalese people Sri Lankan lawyers Alumni of the Ceylon University College People from British Ceylon Alumni of Trinity College, Kandy People from Kandy {{SriLanka-bio-stub