{"id":7750,"date":"2023-07-25T19:55:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:55:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T14:25:30","slug":"appeals-court-full-bench-to-hear-petition-against-diana-gamages-mp-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/?p=7750","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court full bench to hear petition against Diana Gamage\u2019s MP seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The petition filed seeking the disqualification of State Minister Diana Gamage\u2019s parliamentary seat is scheduled to be taken up for hearing once again before a three-judge-bench of the Court of Appeal on 14 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The verdict, although due to be announced today (25), was postponed to 14 September, after Appellate Judges Nissanka Bandula Karunaratne and A. Marikkar delivered a split decision on the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, the case is scheduled to be heard before a three-judge-bench of the Appellate Court on 14 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social activist Oshala Herath had filed the petition seeking a writ order disqualifying the state minister from holding a parliamentary seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Herath had alleged that issuing a diplomatic passport to the State Minister is against the Immigration and Emigration Act since she also holds British citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The petition filed seeking the disqualification of State Minister Diana Gamage\u2019s parliamentary seat is scheduled to be taken up for hearing once again before a three-judge-bench of the Court of Appeal on 14 September. The verdict, although due to be announced today (25), was postponed to 14 September, after Appellate Judges Nissanka Bandula Karunaratne and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7752,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smn24.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}