List of acting chief justices of Sri Lanka

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The Provisional & Acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka is the temporary head of the judicial system of Sri Lanka as the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. The Chief Justice is one of ten Supreme Court justices; the other nine are the Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Provisional & acting chief justices[]

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	Name	Province	Term	Elevated by
	Sir Alexander Johnston §[1]		3 April 1806 - 5 April 1807
	Sir William Coke§		6 March 1809 - 1811
	Sir		18 February 1833 - 1836
7	Sir William Rough		9 March 1836 - April 1836
9	Sir William Rough		April 1837 - 1838
			1859 - 1860
	Sir Richard Morgan		1875	William Henry Gregory
			1875 - 1876
	Sir George Anderson		1876 - 1877
			1882
	Sir Alfred Lascelles		1906
	[2]		1921
	Sir Francis Soertsz		1939
	Sir Francis Soertsz		1945 and 1946
	Eugene Reginald de Fonseka		1960 and 1962	Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
	Chellappah Nagalingam	Northern Province	1954

See also[]

• List of chief justices of Sri Lanka
• List of justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• List of justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka by court composition

References[]

External links[]

• Supreme Court of Sri Lanka