The Contempt of Court application filed against the members of Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) was yesterday fixed for February 21 by Court of Appeal.
This is over their failure to register a student of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine Limited (SAITM) in Malabe in terms of the Court of Appeal judgment.
SLMC members appeared before the Court of Appeal to show cause as to why they should not be punished for Contempt of Court yesterday.
When the matter came up before Court of Appeal Judge, Justice Arjuna Obeysekara, the matter was fixed for another date since the Bench was not properly constituted.
Filing a contempt of court action against SLMC, petitioner Dhilmi Kasunda Suriyarachchi, a MBBS graduate of SAITM moved court that the members of SLMC be charged for committing Contempt of Court by willfully and contumaciously failing to provisionally register her as a medical practitioner in terms of section 29(2) of the Medical Ordinance and thereby disobeying the Court of Appeal order dated January 31, 2017.
The petitioner stated that to date the SLMC and its members have failed, neglected and refused to comply with the judgment of the Court of Appeal which was affirmed by the Supreme Court and provisionally register her as a medical practitioner.
On September 21, the Supreme Court upheld the Court of Appeal judgement dated January 31, 2017 regarding a legal issue pertaining to the SAITM and ordered the SLMC to pay Rs.100,000 as legal costs to petitioner Dhilmi Kasunda Suriyarachchi, a student of SAITM in Malabe for unnecessarily delaying and refusing to register her as a medical practitioner.
President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva with counsel Sugath Caldera, Shanaka Cooray and Niran Anketell appeared for the petitioner. President’s Counsel Manohara de Silva with Gamini Marapana PC with counsel Ravindranath Dabare appeared for the respondents.
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