{"id":4788,"date":"2018-12-12T03:22:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T03:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2018-12-12T03:22:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T03:22:32","slug":"motion-against-presidents-request-to-rush-sc-verdict-on-dissolution-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/motion-against-presidents-request-to-rush-sc-verdict-on-dissolution-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion against President&#8217;s request to rush SC verdict on dissolution of parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A motion has been filed before the Supreme Court against the President Maithripala Sirisena&#8217;s request to expedite the verdict of the petitions on the dissolution of the parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Attorney-at-law Aruna Laksiri has filed the motion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Through his motion the petitioner says that the President&#8217;s request to the Chief Justice Nalin Perera through the Attorney General to expedite the verdict on the petitions filed against the dissolution of parliament was publicized in the news media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Attorney-at-law Aruna Laksiri said that such requests would lead to an impediment in examining the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President can make such a request only through inquiries on a specific interpretation under clause 126 of the Constitution, he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Accordingly, Attorney Laksiri has requested the Supreme Court to issue an independent judgment by holding a proper hearing of the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motion has been filed before the Supreme Court against the President Maithripala Sirisena&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}