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Achala Wengappuli

Achala Wengappuli

Sri Lankan Judge and Lawyer (born 1964)

Arachchige Achala Uthpalavarna Wengappuli is a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He is a justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka from 2018 to 2020 and a judge of the High Court of Sri Lanka from 2007 to 2018.[1]

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Wengappuli received his primary education at Lalith Athulathmudali Vidyalaya, Mt Lavinia and completed his secondary education at Royal College, Colombo. Thereafter he entered Sri Lanka Law College and was admitted to the bar in 1990. He later gained an LL.M from the University of Colombo.

He joined the Attorney General's Department as a State Counsel in 1993. He left the Attorney General's Department in 2007, when he was appointed a Judge of the High Court and was seconded to the judiciary of Fiji. In March 2018, he was appointed as a justice of the Court of Appeal of Sri Lanka and in December 2020, he was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. [1][2]

References

  1. [1]
    Justice Achala Wengappuli appointed to Court of Appeal
  2. [2]
    "New milestone in the judiciary in the country – Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka". Retrieved 4 April 2021.
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