He is also a member of the Faculty Board of the ICLP Arbitration Centre and functions as a visiting Lecturer in Construction Arbitration and Adjudication. Dayaratne is a visiting Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Fiji and an Adjudicator of the Panel of Adjudicators of the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) in Malaysia. His work also included advising the Government, State Corporations and other Statutory Institutions on diverse legal issues.
He has also appeared in several commercial arbitrations both in Sri Lanka and abroad. Thereafter, he moved to the Civil and Commercial Law Division and has represented the State, State Corporations and other Statutory Institutions in the original as well as the appellate courts and these involved amongst others, matters pertaining to fundamental rights, public law, commercial law, tax, banking, customs and labour law.
He was appointed as a President’s Counsel by His Excellency the President in June the same year.ĭuring the first six years of his career at the Attorney General’s Department, Mr.Dayaratne was attached to the Criminal Division and conducted prosecutions in the Magistrate’s Courts and the High Courts and also appeared for the State in the Court of Appeal in appeals filed against judgments delivered by the High Courts. He joined the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka as a State Counsel in January 1993 and rose to become Additional Solicitor General in May 2018. He entered the Sri Lanka Law College in 1989 and was admitted andĮnrolled as an Attorney –at- Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in November 1992. Dayaratne, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in International Relations (BA)įrom the University of Colombo and a Masters Degree in International Trade Law (LL.M) from
Viraj Dayaratne, President’s Counsel, assumed office as the Chairman of the SEC on 22
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