{"id":1161,"date":"2026-05-12T17:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:37:03","slug":"peoples-collective-opposition-sends-letter-to-chief-justice-over-presidents-may-day-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/12\/peoples-collective-opposition-sends-letter-to-chief-justice-over-presidents-may-day-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Collective Opposition Sends Letter to Chief Justice Over President\u2019s May Day Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G. L. Peiris stated that the People\u2019s Collective Opposition has submitted a letter to the Chief Justice requesting attention over comments made by the President regarding court rulings during the May Day rally.<\/p>\n<p>He made these remarks while addressing a media briefing held in Colombo today (12).<\/p>\n<p>Professor G. L. Peiris stated that before a court judgment is delivered, only the presiding judge is aware of its contents, and that the judge has no right to disclose such information to third parties.<\/p>\n<p>He further emphasized that improper interference in judicial proceedings is a very serious offence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. L. Peiris stated that the People\u2019s Collective Opposition has submitted a letter to the Chief Justice requesting attention over comments made by the President regarding court rulings during the May Day rally. He made these remarks while addressing a media briefing held in Colombo today (12). Professor G. L. Peiris stated that before a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}