Full name |
Lalith William Samarasekera Athulathmudali |
Born |
26th November 1936 |
Parents |
D.D. Athulathmudali, Srimathi Samarasekera Athulathmudali |
Spouse |
Srimani Anoma Athulathmudali (Married 1981) |
Children |
Serela Athulathmudali |
Siblings |
Sujaee Athulathmudali, Dayanthe Athulathmudali |
Ladies College, Colombo 07 (1941) |
St. John's College, Panadura (1942) |
Royal Primary School (1943-1947) |
Royal College, Colombo 07 (1948-1955) |
First Class competency in G.C.E Ordinary Level |
Hon. G.L Rupasinghe Scholarship (1952) |
Best all-rounder student of the year (1947) |
Senaka Gunasekera Memorial Prize for General Knowledge (1951-Senior) |
Senaka Gunasekera Memorial Prize for General Knowledge (1950-Junior) |
Governor General's Prize (1954) |
Steward Prize |
E.W. Jayawardena Memorial Prize for English Literature |
Sir James Peiries Memorial Prize for English Essay |
Goonarathne Memorial Shakespeare Prize |
Dr. C.A. Hewawitharana Memorial Prize for European History |
C.L. Wickramasinghe Memorial Prize for Constitution |
Makeen Memorial Prize for Religion Knowledge |
B.F De Silva Memorial Price for Lanka History |
English History Prize |
Class Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954) |
First public speech - Vote of thanks in Prize Giving (1947) - Chief guest - Hon. E.A. Nugawela, The Minister of Education |
Prefect |
Vice President - United Nations Students' Association |
Represented Ceylon at the "New York Mirror Forum” in USA |
Member - College Debating Team – Won Best Debater Award |
Co Editor - College Magazine (1955) |
Secretary - Tennis Club |
Participated in "Quiz Kid" - Radio Quiz Programme |
Committee Member - English Literature Club (Junior/Senior) |
Head Prefect - Primary School (1947) |
All Ceylon Public School Athletics Champion & Team Captain (1952) |
Athletics Colours (1953) |
Team member - Cricket, Tennis, Swimming & Cadetting |
Athletics Captain (Junior) – Won Tarbet Trophy |
House Captain |
Hurdles 120-Yard - First Place |
Relay 100X4 - Second Place |
100-Yard - Third place |
100-Yard - First place |
Hurdles 120-Yard - Second Place |
Hurdles 80-Yard - First Place(New Public School Record) |
100 Yard - First Place |
Relay - First Place |
100-Yard - First place |
Relay 100X4 - Second Place |
Relay 100x4 - Third Place |
Hurdles 80-Yard - First Place |
Relay - First Place (Team Captain) place |
100-Yard - First place |
Long Jump - Third place |
100-Yard - First place |
Hurdles 80-Yard - First Place |
Relay 100X4 - First Place |
Long Jump - Second Place |
Shot put - Second place |
100-Yard - First place |
Long Jump - Second place |
Hurdles 80-Yard - Third Place |
Relay - First Place |
100-Yard - Second place |
Long Jump - Third place |
100-Yard - Second place |
1955 - Entered University of Oxford - Jesus College |
1958 - B.A. (Honour School of Jurisprudence) Oxford |
1960 - M.A. (Jurisprudence) |
1960 - BCL (OXON) |
1963 - L.LM. University of Harvard ('A' Average) - Thesis was accepted to the University Library's collection - 99 Marks |
1990(Nov) Conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by the University of Jayewardenepura - Sri Lanka |
1990(Dec) Conferment of the Degree of Doctor of Letters (Honoris Causa) by the University of Peradeniya - Sri Lanka |
Won the Lord Sankey Award for Jurisprudence - Oxford (1959) |
N.B. Thesis accepted for permanent collection of Harvard (L.LM.) |
West German Government Scholarship - German Language (1958) |
Ceylon Government Scholarship (1959) |
Fellowship - Harvard Law School (1962) |
Secretary - Oxford Union (1956) |
Treasurer - Oxford Union (1957) |
Librarian - Oxford Union (1957) |
President - Oxford Union (1958) |
President - Oxford Majilis (The Asian Society) |
Founder President - Oxford Buddhist Society |
1959 Barrister-at-Law - Gray's Inn |
1959 Tutor - Jesus & University Colleges, Oxford |
1960-1962 Lecturer - Faculty of Law - University of Singapore |
1963 Deputy Dean - Faculty of Law/University of Singapore |
1964 Asst. Editor, Malaya Law Review |
1962-1964 Guest Lecturer,
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1964 Advocate of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (now Attorney-at-Law) |
1967-1974 Lecturer in Jurisprudence - Ceylon Law College |
1967-1974 Visiting Lecturer & Examiner of,
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1975 Called to the Bar of New South Wales, Australia (Barrister-at-Law, N.S.W. Australia) |
1985 Appointed President's Counsel |
"Way of Necessity" - South African Law Journal (1959) |
"Preventive Detention in Malaya" - Journal of International Commission of Jurists (1961) |
"The Woman Charter" (with G.W. Bartholomeu Malaya Law Review (1961) |
"Law of Defamation in Ceylon" - International & Comparative Law Quarterly - London (1964) |
"Ceylon - Current Constitutional Problems" - Indian Yearbook of World Affairs (1965) |
"The Rule of Law and the Common Man" - I.C.J. Conference Paper (1966) |
"Ceylon - Joint Tort Feasors & Contributory Negligence" - Journal of Ceylon Law (1970) |
"The Constitutional Court" - Sri Lanka experiment Malaya Law Review - Memorial Edition (1975) |
"Fortlacoming Negotiations on Multifibre Agreement" World Economy Qtiarterly Journal (June) Volume III |
"Conflict in Sri Lanka - Perceptions in the U.S. Role" - Forum on Ethnic Conflict & Indo-Lanka Peace Accord - Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives 1989 - (Sept) Vol. 8 (III) |
"Exclusion of Evidence & the Promotion of Justice" (Dr.W.D.L. Fernando Memorial Oration / Medico-Legal Society of Sri Lanka) Colombo University Journal (1991) |
"Farmer or Scientist?" - Asian Farming Systems, Asian Institute of Technology - Publication (1991) |
Member of the Policy Making Body of the United National Party (UNP) - 1973-1991 |
Member of the Working Committee of the United National Party - 1973-1991 |
Elected Member of Parliament (Ratmalana Constituency) - July 1977 to December 1988 |
Elected Member of Parliament (Colombo District) - February 1989 |
Member of the Select Committees of Parliament appointed to draft the,
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Chief Organizer of United National Party in Colombo District (1989) |
Chairman - Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population & Development - Sri Lanka Branch (1990) |
Minister of Trade (1977) |
Minister of Trade & Shipping (Sept. 1978) |
Minister of National Security & Deputy Minister of Defence (1984) |
National Security & Defence and Minister of Trade & Shipping (April 1988) |
Minister of Agriculture Food & Co-operatives (1989) |
Minister of Education & Higher Education (April 1990) |
Formed a new party "Democratic United National Front" (November 1991) - Co-President |
Became the first President of the party (1992) |
Elected President of the UNCTAD Ministerial Meeting of Trade & Development on Debt-Relief to Developing Countries - Geneva 1978 |
Led Sri Lanka Delegations to Inter-Parliamentary Union & Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conferences held in Jamaica, Lisbon, Oslo (1978-1983) |
UNCTAD/GATT Conferences Led Sri Lanka delegations to Geneva, Manila, Belgrade - 1979-1983 |
Chairman of the Asian Group 1979-1983 |
The first joint Meeting of the Japan Sri Lanka Business Co-operation Committee President 1979 |
Leader of the Special Mission of the Bangkok Multi-Lateral Trade Agreement sponsored by ESCAP/UNITC (March 1988) |
Leader of the Delegation to Food and Agriculture Organization Sessions - Rome (1989) |
Leader of the Delegation to Commonwealth Education Ministers Conference - Barbados (1990) |
Teachers of Law South-East Asia (Singapore 1962) |
Teachers of International Law (1964) |
EEC - Asian Partnership in World Economy - The Royal Institute of International Affairs - (Belgium 1978) |
Development Conference on North-South Dialogue (New Forest Conference) - 1978. |
Independent Commission for Development Issues (Brandt Commission) - 1978 |
The 2nd Young Commonwealth leaders Conference (Colombo 1979) |
North-South Dialogue - Liberal View international Colloquium - Ottawa, 1979 (Friedrich Naumann Stiftung/Foundation) |
Annual Sessions of World Congress of Labour and Brotherhood of Asian Trade Unionists (Manila 1979 - Bangkok 1984) |
International Colloquium on Freedom & Human Dignity in Development Strategies - Berlin 1980 - (Friedrich Naumann Stiftung/Foundation) |
Conference on International Trade & Textile and Clothing Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) - Brussels (1980) |
World Bank Seminar on Export Development - Washington (1982) |
International Jaycees Conference - Osaka (1982) |
Guest Speaker at the Summer Programme "Distinguished Speaker Series" of the Maryland University, U.S.A. (1988) |
Guest Speaker - Forum of the UNFPA Sessions, Amsterdam declaration (Chairman of the Pacific Group - 1989) |
Guest Speaker / Resource Person (UNFPA) for the 3rd General Assembly of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians for Population & Development, Bangkok (1990) |
Key Note Address - Asian Farming Systems Research & Extension Symposium 1990, Asian Institute of Technology |
Sinhala, English, Tamil, French & German |
Reading, Farming |
Founder Trustee - "Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship Trust Fund" (First established with his personal contribution) |
Vice President - The Mahabodhi Society of Sri Lanka |
President of the Nikaya Arakshaka Dayake Sabawa to the Maha Sangha of the Amarapura Nikaya and Ramannaya Nikaya |
Vice President - Jatika Sevaka Sangamaya (Trade Union) |
President - Sri Lanka Amateur Athletic Association (1988-1991) |
President - Sri Lanka Badminton Federation (1988-1990) |
President - Nondescript Cricket Club (NCC) (Until 1992) |
Patron - Sri Lanka Association of Musicians |
Vice Patron - United Nations Association of Sri Lanka |
Member of the Selection Committee - Rhodes Scholarship Trust (Ceylon) (1968-1971) |
Founder - Ratmalana Electorate Development Foundation |
Date |
23rd April 1993 |
Course of Death |
Two shots to the chest by a gunman |
Place |
Kirulapone Ground (Now Lalith Athulathmudali Ground), Kirulapone, Sri Lanka. While Addressing an election rally |
