D.W. ‘Bacon’ Abayakoon: Lawyer, Visionary and Grandfather – By Devoushi Cooray    Winston Churchill once said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” In the recent history of Sri Lanka’s legal system, I believe that there has been no man who has done these words greater justice than my late grandfather, D.W. Abayakoon.  Looking Back  It was a Sunday morning, and I had just come back from brunch. My mother had been cleaning out her wardrobe, and discovered a small black box of newspaper clippings containing articles that dated back to when my grandfather had contested for the Bar Association Presidency. As I slowly read through the articles, I was reminded of a man; a man who in many ways I had always thought of as completely ordinary, yet in that moment, whose enduring courage, integrity and simplicity, seemed so extraordinary to me.  ...