{"id":1650,"date":"2026-07-12T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T09:22:42","slug":"judicial-service-assn-president-resigns-ahead-of-disputed-agm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/?p=1650","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Service Assn. president resigns ahead of disputed AGM..!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate Pasan Amarasena has resigned from his position as president of the Judicial Service Association, whose membership comprises magistrates and district court judges.<\/p>\n<p>His resignation came ahead of a special general meeting of the JSA to discuss the extension of superior court judges\u2019 retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement addressed to the membership, Amarasena alleged the proposed meeting scheduled for today (11) was being convened contrary to the Association\u2019s long-standing practices and without the required level of member participation.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately afterwards, JSA secretary Suranga Munasinghe issued a statement to the members, completely rejecting the accusations contained in Amarasena\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n<p>He said the meeting would take place as planned despite the president\u2019s resignation, noting he has two documents to prove the Judicial Services Commission secretary has been notified about the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magistrate Pasan Amarasena has resigned from his position as president of the Judicial Service Association, whose membership comprises magistrates and district court judges. His resignation came ahead of a special general meeting of the JSA to discuss the extension of superior court judges\u2019 retirement age. In a statement addressed to the membership, Amarasena alleged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local","category-breaking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eelam24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}