Asoka de Silva (judge)

Joseph Asoka Nihal De Silva (born 17 May 1946) was the 42nd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka.

[1][2] Silva obtained his primary education from St. Anthony's College, Kandy.

After graduating from University of Peradeniya in 1971 he joined as an advocate of the Supreme Court in December 1972.

On 31 July 2013 he was appointed a member of the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board in Kenya, a body established under Kenya's new Constitution to rid the Judiciary of unsuitable judicial officers.

[3] Asoka De Silva has obtained a master's degree in administrative law in 1983/84 from the University of Colombo and has done a postgraduate diploma in criminology at the University of Illinois in the United States.