T. S. Fernando

Justice Thusew Samuel Fernando, QC (5 August 1906 - ?) was a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Solicitor General of Ceylon.

The Honourable Justice

Thusew Samuel Fernando, QC
Personal details
NationalitySri Lanka
Alma materUniversity of London,
Royal College Colombo

Education

Fernando was educated at the Royal College, Colombo and at the University of London where he gained a LLB degree. He was called to the bar as a Barrister from the Lincoln's Inn. On his return to Ceylon, he was called to the bar as an Advocate on 17 November 1931.

He joined the Attorney General's Department on 5 June 1938 when he was appointed a Crown Counsel, having acted as a Crown Counsel on several occasions between Augest 1936 to June 1938. He served on several occasions as an acting Senior Crown Counsel, before he was promoted to Senior Crown Counsel on 28 September 1949. He was appointed Acting Solicitor General on 29 August 1952 and confirmed as Solicitor General of Ceylon on 10 August 1953. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel.[1]

Judaical career

Later he was made a judge Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. During his tenure he was appointed to the first Trial at Bar following the 1962 coup d'état attempt, he delivered the decision said that in the court’s view the nomination of judges was essentially a judicial function and nowhere in the constitution was that power handed over to a body outside the judicature as bench was nominated by the Minister of Justice. In 1982 he headed the Constitutional Court.[2]

References
  1. The Ceylon Civil List 1954. Ceylon: The Government Press.
  2. Has the SC reintroduced sovereignty of British monarch : in Courts Martial judgment in Gen. Sarath Fonseka’s case?
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