Nagalingam J., Gratiaen J. and Gunasekara

1951 Present . Nagalingam J., Gratiaen J. and Gunasekara J.

S. C. 361-IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION FOE READMISSION

 AS AN ADVOCATE OF THE SUPREME COURT

Advocate-Name struck off Roll of Advocates-Subsequent application for readmission Principles applicable.

The petitioner, whose name was struck off the Roll of Advocates on the ground that he had been convicted of two offences involving moral turpitude, applied to the Supreme Court, after twenty years had elapsed to be readmitted to the profession.

Held, that in such an application, the duty of the Court must be measured by the rights of litigants who may seek advice from a professional man admitted or readmitted to the Bar and by the right of the profession to claim that re-enrolment will not involve some further risk of degradation to the reputation of the Bar. There is, however, no principle of law which declares that an advocate who has been disbarred on the ground that he has committed a grave crime is permanently disqualified from seeking re-enrolment.

THIS was an application by the petitioner to be readmitted as an Advocate.

N. K. Chohsy, K.C., with E. Ama

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