He was involved in leading the prosecution of Talduwe Somarama Thero in the trial of the Bandaranaike assassination in 1960. He resigned in protest from the post of Deputy Solicitor General when George E. Chitty, QC of the unofficial bar was retained by the government to lead the prosecution against the appeals of the three convicts of the assassination in the Court of Criminal Appeal. After a successful stint in the unofficial bar, he was appointed by Dudley Senanayake's government to the post of Attorney General in 1966 following an alleged attempted coup d'état. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel and in December 1969 addressed the 681st Special Political Committee meeting at the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York [3] on the Palestinian problem. He was conferred the national honour of the title of Deshamanya in 1991 the first-ever Independence Day National Honours list created in 1986.[4] Former minister M. L. M. Aboosally was his brother-in-law.
References
^Amerasinghe, A. Ranjit B. (1986), The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka : the first 185 years, Sarvodaya Book Pub. Services, ISBN978-955-599-000-4
^The Ceylon Civil List 1954. Ceylon: The Government Press.