Achala Wengappuli | |
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Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka | |
Assumed office 1 December 2020 | |
Justice of the Court of Appeal Sri Lanka | |
In office 22 February 2018 –30 November 2020 | |
Personal details | |
Nationality | Sri Lankan |
Alma mater | University of Ceylon, Royal College,Colombo |
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]
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]
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