Abdul Caffoor Mohamad Ameer

Abdul Caffoor Mohamad Ameer
32nd Attorney General of Ceylon
In office
1966–1970
Preceded by Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze
Succeeded by Victor Tennekoon

Abdul Caffoor Mohamad Ameer, QC was the 32nd Attorney General of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1966, succeeding Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze, and held the office until 1970. He was succeeded by Victor Tennekoon.[1]

Ameer joined the Attorney General's Department as a Crown Counsel, going on to become a Deputy Solicitor General. He was involved in leading the prosecution of Talduwe Somarama Thero in the trial of the Bandaranaike assassination in 1960. He resigned in protest from the post of Deputy Solicitor General when George E. Chitty, QC of the unofficial bar was retained by the government to lead the prosecution against the appeals of the three convicts of the assassination in the Court of Criminal Appeal. After a successful stint in the unofficial bar, he was appointed by Dudley Senanayake's government to the post of Attorney General in 1966 following an alleged attempted coup d'état.

References

  1. ↑ Amerasinghe, A. Ranjit B (1986), The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka : the first 185 years, Sarvodaya Book Pub. Services, ISBN 978-955-599-000-4
Legal offices
Preceded by
Douglas St. Clive Budd Jansze		 Attorney General of Ceylon
1966–1970		 Succeeded by
Victor Tennekoon
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