Sri Lanka, Feb. 19 -- Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya has been elected as the new President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL).

Amarasuriya previously served as the Secretary of BASL and has an extensive appellate court practice, specializing in public law and various branches of civil litigation, including contractual, commercial, property, taxation, and banking law.

He holds multiple prominent positions across state and private sector institutions, including serving as a Board/Committee Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, the Standing Committee of Legal Studies of the University Grants Commission, and as a Council Member of the University of Colombo.

He also represents Sri Lanka in t...