Priyantha Jayawardena is a sitting Judge of the Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Education and early career

After receiving primary and secondary education at Nalanda College Colombo. While at Nalanda he excelled in studies and rugger playing for the college rugger team. Later he entered

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and was enrolled as an attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court in 1988 and served as a research assistant to the late

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and late

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Legal career

In 1994 after pursuing a master's degree in commercial law from the

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United Kingdom and returning to Sri Lanka he joined Attorney-General's Department as a state counsel. During his time in the UK having completed Qualified Lawyers' Transfer Test he was enrolled as a Solicitor of the

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. Later after serving as a private legal practitioner in labour law, commercial law and public and constitutional law for nearly a decade Jayawardena, was appointed a

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by the president and called to the inner bar in 2012. He was also a visiting lecturer of commercial law at the

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(Department of Building Economics). Jayawardena serves as board member, director, legal consultant for many government organisations and private sector institutes.

References

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