COLOMBO July 4 Kyodo A Buddhist m...

COLOMBO July 4 Kyodo

A Buddhist monk who qualified as a lawyer has been refused his enrollment oaths forward the ground that his saffron robes were ''inappropriate'' court attire, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

The Daily Mirror newspaper said that the unidentified monk had applied to the paramount Court to have his oaths administered moreover had been refused at the court's senior registrar onward the grounds that his robes were ''inappropriate for the occasion.''

Court controls require that anybody taking oath as an attorney must be clad either in the national dres or Western suit. The robes of a Buddhist monk are not permitted.

greatest Court Registrar Bandula Atapattu was quot as saying he had told the monk that he must originate for the swearing-in in clothes prescribed according to the rules. The monk's testify that he merely wished to clean his legal education by being admitted as an attorney and that he would not practice law had not wound any ice.

He said that another monk who wished to be admitted as a lawyer had to bear the same ruling 20 years ago.

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