| 词条 | V. Manicavasagar |
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|image = Justice Manicavasagar.JPG |imagesize = 150px | | honorific-prefix =The Honourable Justice Deshamanya | name = Manicavasagar Vaithalingam | honorific-suffix = | caption = | order = | office = Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon | term_start = December 17, 1964 | term_end = | office1 = Chairman of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon | term_start1 = April 1980 | term_end1 = March 1985 | office2 = Chancellor of the University of Jaffna | term_start2 = January 1, 1979 | term_end2 = 1984 | nominator = | appointer = Sirimavo Bandaranaike | predecessor = | successor = | birth_date = December 17, 1906 | birth_place = Colombo, British Ceylon | death_date = December 27, 1993 | death_place = Colombo, Sri Lanka | nationality = Sri Lanka | spouse = Valamba Manicavasagar nee Selliah | party = | relations = Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam, Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva, D. M. Swaminathan Justice Siva Selliah | children = Arunachala Manicavasagar, Nirmala Ragunanthan nee Manicavasagar | residence = 78 Ward Place, Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka | alma_mater =Colombo Law College, Royal College Colombo | occupation = | profession = | religion = Hinduism | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}Deshamanya Manicavasagar Vaithalingam (December 17, 1906 - December 12, 1993) was a Sri Lankan lawyer, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, Chancellor of the University of Jaffna[1] and Chairman of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon.[2] Early yearsVaithalingam was born on December 17, 1906 to prominent Colombo stockbroker Mudaliyar Arunachala Vaithalingam. Both his paternal and maternal family hails from the affluent town of Manipay, Jaffna. He began his education at the Royal College, Colombo[3] where he excelled in academics and went on to obtain a degree in law from the Colombo Law College. Judicial careerVaithalingam joined the judicial service 9 years after being called to the bar, as an Acting Magistrate in Mallakan. For over two decades, he functioned as a Magistrate and District Judge in different parts of the island and in October, 1962, he was appointed a Commissioner of Assize. He continued as such till his appointment to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1964 by President Sirimavo Bandaranaike. JudgmentsMentioned below are a few of the numerous judgments in which Justice Vaithalingam was involved. All of the cases below are from the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and no judgments from lower courts have been included.[4] Cases presided over
Cases in which referred to for Common Law purposes
Post-Judicial CareerAfter retiring from the Supreme Court, Vaithalingam was appointed Chairman of the Commercial Bank of Ceylon and was then appointed as the first Chancellor of the University of Jaffna. In Retirement, he was a member of both the Citizen Committee and the Delimitation Committee among many others. A devote Hindu, he also served as President of the Educational Society for many years.[5] As Chancellor of the University of JaffnaVaithalingam was appointed as the first Chancellor of the University of Jaffna by the President of Sri Lanka with effect from the first of January, 1979. In the course of his tenure, which lasted half a decade, he presided over the first convocation held at the Veerasingam Hall on the 13th of September 1980 and also delivered the very first convocation address. He was also conferred with a Doctorate by the University.[6] DeshamanyaVaithalingam was awarded the Deshamanya Award within two years of its founding in 1987.[7] He was the first Sri Lankan Tamil to receive the award and the appearance of common ground between the government and a prominent Tamil caused an adverse reaction from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE called on him to refuse the reward, if he valued his life; however, Vaithalingam defied the outfit and accepted the honour. Ethnic ConflictIn the citizens committee chaired by his good friend and former colleague on the bench, O. L. de Kretser, he worked on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry, on the Tragedy of January Tenth 1974 along with Bishop Sabapathy Kulendran of the Church of South India in Jaffna.[8] Language Rights{{Quote box|quote = "I went to the office of the Government Agent in Colombo in July 1973. In order to find my way to the officer I wanted to meet, I saw a board in Sinhala only. I enquired in English from the clerk who was seated behind the counter as to what it said. His reply in Sinhala was “Don’t you know how to read Sinhala?” I replied in English that I could not understand what he said. He said in Sinhala: “Go and learn Sinhala and come back.” A bystander told me what the board conveyed" - Justice Manicavasagar Vaithalingam 1974 |source = Refugee Studies Centre of the University of Oxford, Children and Armed Conflict in Sri Lanka, Jason Hart, PHD |width = 50% |align = center }} Personal lifeVaithalingam married Valamba, the eldest daughter of Nannithamby Selliah of Rosmead Place - son of Visva Udayar Sangarapillai Nannithamby, Broker of Mackwood & Co. & his wife Sellam, daughter of Kandarthamby Kandiah (Chattambiar) - and sister of Justice Siva Selliah, High Court Judge.[9] They have two children: (1)Arunachala Manicavasagar, JP, who married Skandaleela - daughter of Proctor Sivakolundu Rajendran (JP, NP) and his wife Kamalambigai, youngest daughter of Stowell Elaithamby Murgesampillai - and his younger sister, (2)Nirmala Ragunanthan, who is married to Ragunanthan Thambimutha, Managing Director of Raniyo (Pvt) Ltd. Both of his children continue to live in Colombo while his grandchildren reside in North America. Vaithalingam and his wife were prominent members of the upper echelons of society; however, he and his wife were both very religious and devout Hindus and were very engaged with charity work. Vaithalingam was very close to his wife and largely left society life for a spiritual undertaking and much-subdued persona following her death. Vaithalingam remained close friends with Junius Richard Jayewardene up until his death in 1993. As per an anecdote by Justice Naharaja, when the former president came to visit Vaithalinga while he was on his deathbed, Vaithalingam in a sour state joked about the workings of society by telling Jayewardene that though he had time and again bested him in every academic endeavor throughout their academic career, he had only become a Supreme Court Judge whilst it was Jayewardene that had become President - questioning the workings of society. The statement was quickly laughed away. Notes1. ^ {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122232425/http://www.jfn.ac.lk/aboutusmore.htm |date=January 22, 2010 }} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.combank.net/newweb/about-us/board-of-directors |title=Board of Directors | Commercial Banking | Commercial Bank Sri Lanka |publisher=Combank.net |date= |accessdate=2013-11-23}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oldroyalists.org.uk/old_royalists.php |title=Old Royalists Association in the United Kingdom (ORAUK) |publisher=Oldroyalists.org.uk |date= |accessdate=2013-11-23}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.commonlii.org/cgi-bin/sinosrch.cgi?method=boolean&meta=%2Fcommonlii&mask_path=%2Blk%2Fcases%2FLKSC&mask_world=&query=manicavasagar&results=20&submit=Search&rank=on&callback=off&legisopt=&view=relevance&max= |title=CommonLII Results - manicavasagar |publisher=Commonlii.org |date= |accessdate=2013-11-23}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.uthr.org/Book/CHA02.htm |title=Welcome to UTHR, Sri Lanka |publisher=Uthr.org |date= |accessdate=2013-11-23}} 6. ^http://www.azeezfoundation.com/2010/10/25/university-of-jaffna-honours-a-m-a-azeez/ 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/sinhala/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=236 |title=National Awards |publisher=Presidential Secretariat - Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka |date= |accessdate=2014-06-02}} 8. ^Sri Lankan Ethnic Crisis: Towards a Resolution By R. B. Herath (p.55) 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nation.lk/2007/01/14/opini.htm |title=Opinion |publisher=Nation.lk |date= |accessdate=2013-11-23}}
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