Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Justice Thusew Samuel Fernando, QC was a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Solicitor General of Ceylon. Fernando was educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo and at the Colombo Law College. He became a Crown Counsel and went on to become the Solicitor General of Ceylon in the Attorney General's Department and was appointed a Queen's Counsel. 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.. }
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- T._S._Fernando abstract "Justice Thusew Samuel Fernando, QC was a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Solicitor General of Ceylon. Fernando was educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo and at the Colombo Law College. He became a Crown Counsel and went on to become the Solicitor General of Ceylon in the Attorney General's Department and was appointed a Queen's Counsel. 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.".