{"id":30022,"date":"2026-09-22T21:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=30022"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T12:44:05","slug":"president-nominates-two-new-judges-to-the-court-of-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/?p=30022","title":{"rendered":"President Nominates Two New Judges to the Court of Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has nominated High Court Judges Navaratne Marasinghe and Manjula Tilakaratne to fill the existing vacancies in the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nominations were forwarded to the Constitutional Council today (22) for approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The promotions will take effect upon receiving official endorsement from the Council.<\/p>\n<div class='saic-wrapper saic-default saic-comments-closed saic-border' style='overflow: hidden;'><div class='saic-wrap-link'><a id='saic-link-30022' class='saic-link saic-icon-link saic-icon-link-true auto-load-true' href='?post_id=30022&amp;comments=0&amp;get=30&amp;order=DESC' title='0 Comments'><i class='saico-comment'><\/i><span>0<\/span> Comments<\/a><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-link--><div id='saic-wrap-commnent-30022' class='saic-wrap-comments' style='display:none;'><div id='saic-wrap-form-30022' class='saic-wrap-form saic-clearfix'><div class='saic-form-avatar'><\/div><div id='saic-container-form-30022' class='saic-container-form saic-no-login'><p>Comments are closed<\/p><\/div><!--.saic-container-form--><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-form--><div id='saic-comment-status-30022'  class='saic-comment-status'><\/div><ul id='saic-container-comment-30022' class='saic-container-comments saic-order-DESC ' data-order='DESC'><\/ul><div class='saic-holder-30022 saic-holder'><\/div><\/div><!--.saic-wrap-comments--><\/div><!--.saic-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has nominated High Court Judges Navaratne Marasinghe and Manjula Tilakaratne to fill the existing vacancies in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","category-smartphones","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30024,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30022\/revisions\/30024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lankatruth.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}