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The swearing-in ceremony was held before the Supreme Court, presided over by Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena, said Ada Derana reporter. Accordingly, Additional Solicitors General Sudarshana de Silva, Azard Navavi, Hiranjan Peiris, and Lakmali Karunanayake took the oath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadstories","category-local"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Four Additional Solicitors General appointed President\u2019s Counsel - LANKA NEWS NETWORK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.lankanewsnetwork.com\/?p=5408\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Additional Solicitors General appointed President\u2019s Counsel - LANKA NEWS NETWORK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Four newly promoted Additional Solicitors General of the Attorney General\u2019s Department have been appointed as President\u2019s Counsel. 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