Mohamed Razie Ashiq Lafir vs The Incorporated Council of Legal Education – CA WRT/0333/21-2023

The case between Mohamed Razie Ashiq (the Petitioner) and The Incorporated Council of Legal Education and others addressed the issue of the validity of imposing a Credit pass in Sinhala (or Tamil) at the Sri Lanka GCE Ordinary Level examination for the admission of an English medium LL.B. graduate to Sri Lanka Law College. It was held that the imposition of such a requirement, based on an amendment (P12a) that had not been validly enacted according to statutory procedure and was disapproved by Parliament, was unlawful. The principle reaffirmed was that administrative authorities are bound by the rules in force at the time an application is made and by expectations arising from those rules. This holding relied on Rule 23 (1)E, the Council of Legal Education Ordinance, and established case l