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Suhada Gamlath

lawyer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7635189 ↗
Source-derived summary

Suhada Gamlath PC is a Sri Lankan lawyer. He was the 44th Solicitor General of Sri Lanka and temporarily the Attorney General of Sri Lanka from January to February 2016. He was a former Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms. He was educated at Royal College Colombo and at the Sri Lanka Law College.

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“Suhada Gamlath” enters the record as lawyer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Suhada, Gamlath and lawyer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Suhada, Gamlath and lawyer.
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Why this record matters

“Suhada Gamlath” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Suhada, Gamlath and lawyer provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7635189. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Suhada Gamlath” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.