Hugh Norman Gregory Fernando

Hugh Norman Gregory Fernando, OBE (17 November 1910 – 24 March 1976) was Sri Lanka lawyer and judge.

Born to V. M. Fernando, a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, Fernando was educated at St. Joseph's College, Colombo and at the University of Oxford, where he gained a BA degree and was called to the bar as a barrister from the Gray's Inn.

Having acted as a Crown Counsel between December 1935 to September 1936, he was appointed Assistant Legal Draftsman on 1 October 1936.

On secondment he served as Secretary of the Mortgage Law Commission and the Committee Investigating Representations from Departments where strikes occurred.

His son, Mark Fernando also served as Judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

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