Douglas Liyanage
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Don John Francis Douglas Liyanage, CCS
was a former Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the former Secretary to the Ministry of State in the early 1980s. In 1963 he was named as the first accused of the attempted coup d'état in 1962 by the state prosecution. It was claimed by the state that he was the mastermind behind the attempted coup d'état. Event though he was convicted along with 11 others accused in 1963, the Privy Council
, in its ruling given in December 1965, held the Special Act of 1962 ultra vires of the Ceylon constitution and said that the Act had denied fair trial. According to the Privy Council, the law had been specially enacted to convict the men; under trial they did not have the protections that they would have had under general criminal law. It acquitted all the eleven.
CCS
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was a former Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the former Secretary to the Ministry of State in the early 1980s. In 1963 he was named as the first accused of the attempted coup d'état in 1962 by the state prosecution. It was claimed by the state that he was the mastermind behind the attempted coup d'état. Event though he was convicted along with 11 others accused in 1963, the Privy Council
Privy council
A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on...
, in its ruling given in December 1965, held the Special Act of 1962 ultra vires of the Ceylon constitution and said that the Act had denied fair trial. According to the Privy Council, the law had been specially enacted to convict the men; under trial they did not have the protections that they would have had under general criminal law. It acquitted all the eleven.