In The Matter Of The Application Of C. C. J. Seneviratne To Be Admitted And Enrolled An Advocate Of The Supreme Court

Present: Schneider A.C.J., Lyall Grant and Jayewardene JJ.

In the Matter of the Application of C. C. J. SENEVIRATNE to be
admitted and enrolled an Advocate of the Supreme Court.

    Advocate-Application for reinstatement-Power of the Supreme Court- Expiation of offence-Period of atonement-Courts Ordinance, No. 1 of 1889, s. 19.

The Supreme Court has power to reinstate an. Advocate, who has been disbarred, when he expiated his offence and redeemed his character. But the Court must be satisfied, before such readmission, that the period of atonement has been long enough to provide a guarantee sufficient for him to be allowed, with propriety, to return' to the practice of an honourable profession.

THIS was an application by the petitioner to be readmitted and enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court. At a sessions of the Supreme Court held at Kandy in April, 1920, the petitioner and another Advocate were jointly tried and convicted of cheating under section 403 of the Penal Code and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of

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