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Appreciation: Sunil de Silva Source:Dæhæna – Monthly e-Newsletter – April 2021 On the 28th of February 2021 as the sun rose in the East and the songbirds sang, Mr. Sunil Chandra de Silva, President’s Counsel, former AttorneyGeneral of Sri Lanka, Crown Prosecutor of New South Wales, eminent lawyer, scholar, teacher, entertainer, handyman, devoted and loving husband and father, and kind and loyal friend and proud alumnus of the Royal College quietly took leave of this world. I first saw Sunil striding the cloisters of Hulftsdorp shoulders back and ramrod straight, his lawyer’s robes flowing behind him. He was not a tall man but carried himself like a giant in the eyes of junior lawyers like me. His imposing presence could not hide a warm heart. He had time for us – to stop and ask how we were. Later when we ventured nervously into the Bar Council Canteen where the ...