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About R. K. W. Goonesekera
- Deshamanya R.
- K.
- W.
- Goonesekera, PC (born May 8, 1928) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and academic.
- He was the Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, a Professor and Professor of Law, Ahmadu Bello University and Principal of the Sri Lanka Law College.
- He specialises in Public Law, Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights.Educated at Royal College Colombo, he graduated with a LLB from the University of Ceylon in 1954, he was called to bar as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon.
- In 1956 he gained a BCL from the University of Oxford. Goonesekera served as a senior lecturer of Law University of Ceylon and thereafter served as Principal of Sri Lanka Law College from 1966 to 1974.
- He became a Professor in Law at Ahmadu Bello University.
- A founder member of the Civil Rights Movement, Prof Goonesekera headed the Nadesan Centre for Human Rights through Law and became Deputy President of the Bar Council in 1993.
- He is also a member of the Legal Aid Commission and the Law Commission.
- He has been appointed a President's Counsel and been awarded the title Deshamanya by the government of Sri Lanka.
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