Neville Dunbar Mirahawatte Samarakoon (22 October 1919 - 1990) was a Sri Lanka

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n lawyer, who served as Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

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 from 1977 to 1984.he's father was A.C.W Samarakoon and mother was Chandrawathi Mirahawatte kumarihamy

He was educated at Trinity College, Kandy

Trinity College, Kandy

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, then at University College, Colombo and the Law College, Colombo

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. He began work as an advocate in 1945, and worked as a Crown Counsel from 1948 to 195, when he returned to private work. He was made Queen's Counsel

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 in 1968. From 1964 to 1977 he was a member of the Bar Council, and sat on the Disciplinary Board for Lawyers from 1971 to 1974, then again in 1976 and 1977.

He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

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in 1977, a post he would hold until retiring in 1984.