Legal Career
Upon leaving Oxford he took up a legal career. He returned to Sri Lanka and built up a practice in commercial, industrial and administrative law. In 1963, he was commissioned by Amnesty International to investigate the Buddhist-led resistance campaign that year against the regime in South Vietnam. This was the first-ever report for Amnesty of a situation in an individual country.
Going on to work for international organisations in Geneva, Kadiragamar served in 1974-6 as a consultant for the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Then in 1976 he took up an appointment with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), in which he was appointed in 1983 to the newly-created post of Director for Asia and the Pacific. Kadirgamar was the author of a number of scholarly articles published in international legal journals such as the Modern Law Review, South African Law Journal and Conveyancer and Property Lawyer.
In 1988 he returned to Sri Lanka and resumed his legal career there. In 1991 he was appointed President's Counsel.
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