Justice Mark Damien Hugh Fernando (27 February 1941 – 20 January 2009) was a jurist and former judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
Ameresekere once challenged the Sri Lankan Government's Appropriation Bill in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and raised several cogent issues on the Government’s Fiscal transparency and accountability to the public.
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Notable winners of the Turnour Prize include Deshamanya C.A. Coorey, former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance & Treasury, Sir Thomas De Sampayo, former Judge of the Supreme Court of Ceylon and Professor Osmund Jayaratne former President of the Colombo Campus, University of Sri Lanka.
In 1971, he graduated from the University of Ceylon Colombo campus, with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) winning the Gate Mudaliyar Edmund Pieris prize awarded for academic excellence, and after passing the Final Examination for the Admission of Advocates held in October 1973, was admitted to the Bar as an Attorney-at-law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in June 1974.
Justice V. Manicavasagar- former Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Chancellor of the University of Jaffna