{{Short description|Chief Justice of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1984}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Neville Samarakoon |native_name = |native_name_lang = |alt = |caption = |office = 36th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka |nominator = |appointer = J. R. Jayewardene |term_start = 1977 |term_end = 1984 |predecessor = Victor Tennekoon |successor = Suppiah Sharvananda |birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|10|22|df=yes}} |birth_place = |death_date = 1990 |death_place = |party = |other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> |spouse = Mary Samarakoon<!-- Reference: http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2015/12/11/obituaries/obituaries --><br>(''née'' Mulholand) |children = Jeannie, Michael & Romanie<!-- Reference: http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2015/12/11/obituaries/obituaries --> |partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> |relations = |alma_mater = University College, Colombo<br>Law College, Colombo<br>Trinity College, Kandy |signature = |signature_alt = |website = }} '''Neville Dunbar Mirahawatte Samarakoon''', Q.C. (22 October 1919 – 1990) was a Sri Lankan lawyer, who served as the 36th Chief Justice of Sri Lanka from 1977 to 1984. His father was A. C. W. Samarakoon and his mother was Chandrawathi Mirahawatte Kumarihamy.

He was educated at Trinity College, Kandy, then at University College, Colombo and the Law College, Colombo. He began work as an advocate in 1945, and worked as a Crown Counsel from 1948 to ?195, when he returned to private work. He was made Queen's Counsel in 1968. From 1964 to 1977 he was a member of the Bar Council, and sat on the Disciplinary Board for Lawyers from 1971 to 1974, then again in 1976 and 1977.

He was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1977, a post he would hold until retiring in 1984.<ref>[http://sundaytimes.lk/000416/pol.html Why no action on judge?]</ref> He was succeeded by Suppiah Sharvananda.<ref name=JSCS>{{cite web|title=Overview|url=http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en|publisher=Judicial Service Commission Secretariat|accessdate=19 October 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019091817/http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en|archivedate=19 October 2013}}</ref>

==References==

{{Reflist}} *SAMARAKOON, Hon. Neville Dunbar Mirahawatte. ''Who Was Who 1897–2006''. (2007).

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