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In a letter addressed to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Judicial Service Association of Sri Lanka (JSASL) representing all the District Court judges and Magistrates in the country, has expressed their dissatisfaction regarding two recent appointments of high court judges made 5th of June. They stressed that appointing former Chief of Staff and Deputy Secretary General of Parliament Tikiri Jayathilaka and Senior State Counsel at the Attorney General’s department Nayani Nirmala Kasthuriratne as High Court judges could negatively affect public confidence in the judiciary and rule of the law in the country and detrimental independence of the judiciary. The JSASL maintained that Jayathilaka’s exposure to a non-legal institution was deemed to be a disqualification to reassume duties as a member of the judiciary at any future stage. It further noted that the officer from the Attorney General’s Department appointed is a very junior officer in comparison to the judicial officers who are next in line in judicial seniority.