Sri Lanka, June 30 -- It is reported that the Government is considering extending the retirement age of judges of the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court by two years to continue benefiting from their knowledge and experience. This is a welcome proposal.
If the retirement age of superior court judges is to be extended on this basis, the same principle should be considered for other sectors of the public service, including the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS), university lecturers, doctors, state bank officers, and other senior public servants, many of whom currently have an optional retirement age of 55 and a mandatory retirement age of 60.
International experience also supports this approach. In the United States, judges of the ...