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Kishali Pinto Jayawardene Eyebrows are being raised over the 20th Amendment to the Constitution’s inclusion of provisions at committee stage to increase the number of judges in Sri Lanka’s superior courts of record, the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. Justified by the Justice Minister on the floor of the House on the rationale that the increase was due to a heavy backlog of cases in both courts, this clause was however not previously in the Government’s package of amendments presented to the Supreme Court by the Attorney General during consideration of the 20th Amendment Bill. It was inserted into the 20th Amendment in Parliament despite the Minister’s categorical assurance to Opposition parliamentarians that, no new amendments, apart from amendments in the public domain, would be brought to the Bill at committee stage. ....