List of Royal College Colombo Alumni - Lawyers

Lawyers

• Suhada Gamalath - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms
• Dr Nihal Jayawickrama - former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Executive Director of Transparency International (note: - Also listed in Academics)
• Rear Admiral Palitha Fernando, PC - current Attorney General of Sri Lanka and Judge Advocate of the Sri Lanka Navy (note: - Also listed in Military)
• Mohan Peiris, PC - former Attorney General of Sri Lanka (note: - Also listed in Judges)
• C. R. De Silva, PC - former Attorney General of Sri Lanka and Chairmen, Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission
• Shibly Aziz, PC - former Attorney General of Sri Lanka and Chairmen of the Civil Aviation Authority
• Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan, KCMG, KC - former Solicitor General of Ceylon (note: - Also listed in Prominent figures in the Independence Movement & Legislators)
• Justice Maas Thajoon Akbar, KC - former Solicitor General of Ceylon (note: - Legislators & Judges)
• Justice T.S. Fernando, QC - former Solicitor General of Ceylon (note: - Judges)
• Mervyn Fonseka, OBE, KC - former Solicitor General of Ceylon & Legal Draftsman
• Sinha Basnayake, PC - former Director of the General Legal Division, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
• John De Saram - former Director of the Office of the Legal Counsel, United Nations Office of Legal Affairs (note: - Also listed in Diplomats)
• Deshamanya Ranjit Abeysuriya, PC - former Director Public Prosecutions, Attorney General's Department and President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka(note: - Also listed in Public commissions & corporations)

• Harry Wilfred Jayewardene, QC - former President Sri Lanka Bar Association, Chairman Industrial Disputes Commission, UN Human Rights Commission & a well known criminal lawyer
• Somasundaram Nadesan, QC - former President of the Bar Council (note: - Also listed in Legislators)
• H. Sri Nissanka, KC - a well known criminal lawyer (note: - Also listed in Legislators)
• Frederick Dornhorst, KC - Famous King's Advocate
• Sam Kadirgamar, QC - a well known lawyer
• N. E. Weerasooriya, QC - a well known lawyer (note: - Also listed in Public commissions & Corporations)
• Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, PC - a well known criminal lawyer (note: - Also listed in Diplomats)
• Chula De Silva, PC - prominent lawyer and Rhodes Scholar
• Gritakumar E. Chitty - former Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Shyamlal Rajapaksa - former prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (note: - Also listed in Provincial Councilors)
• Dr Harsha Cabral, PC - a Commissioner of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka
• George Edmund Chitty Jnr., QC - a well known Crown Counsel, former Commissioner of Assize
• Fredrick Christian Loos - former Commissioner of Requests and Crown Proctor
• Jayantha Gunasekera, PC - a well known lawyer & former Secretary of the Sri Lanka Bar Association
• J.W. Subasinghe, PC - Constitutional and Appellate lawyer and former Registrar, Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• Ainsley Clive "Bunty" de Zoysa, PC - a well known criminal lawyer & crown counsel
• Edmund Wijerama - Senior Counsel, former Advocate and Author
• Jayantha P Weerasinghe, PC - a well known lawyer
• Chanaka Bandarage – a leading Barrister and Solicitor in Canberra
• Senaka Weeraratna, Attorney - at - law and Barrister and Solicitor (Victoria, Australia), Author of the 'Player Referral' Concept underlying the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) in international cricket (http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/03/26/spo30.asp)