The newly elected Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) will convene its inaugural meeting today (June 16) at 9:30 am at the Town Hall in Colombo.

The gazette extraordinary in this regard was issued by the Commissioner of the Department of Local Government of the Western Province, Sarangika Jayasundara.

Today’s agenda chiefly aims to elect a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor through a ballot of the 117 councilors as no party managed to secure a  clear majority in the recently concluded Local Government election.

The Constitutional Council (CC) has approved the appointment of two High Court judges as Justices of the Court of Appeal.

It is reported that the Constitutional Council, chaired by Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne, met recently and approved the nominations submitted by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on the recommendation of Chief Justice Murdu Fernando.

Accordingly, approval has been granted for the appointment of Colombo High Court Judge Aditya Patabendige and High Court Judge (Civil Appeals) Frank Gunawardena as Justices of the Court of Appeal.

However, it is reported that the proposal to appoint Acting President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar, as a Supreme Court Justice was not considered by the Constitutional Council.

It is stated that the government withdrew the nomination concerning him, as there is currently no vacant seat on the Supreme Court bench.

Meanwhile, on March 11, three newly appointed Court of Appeal Justices were formally sworn in before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat.

(adaderana.lk)

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The Colombo Commercial High Court has ordered to publicly auction three companies said to be belonging to former MP Daya Gamage.

According to the Registrar and Deputy Fiscal of the Colombo Commercial High Court, the auction will be held on July 02 at 10am.

The decision to auction these 03 companies was made to recover a sum of Rs. 104,229,342 owed to a leasing company, People’s Leasing & Finance PLC.

As the respondents have paid approximately Rs. 4,080,000 out of the Rs. 108,309,342 to the leasing company, the auction will proceed in accordance with the judgment issued on Nov. 10, 2022, to recover the remaining amount.

The companies scheduled to be auctioned are Daya Group of Ltd., Daya Apparel Exporter (Pvt) Ltd., and Olympus Construction (Pvt) Ltd.

(Source : Deshaya)