Justice C. G. Weeramantry, one of the world’s most eminent jurists, passed away today at the age of 90.

Justice Weeramantry, who began his judicial career in the 1950s, served as a senior judge of the Supreme Court from 1965. In 1972. He later moved to Australia where he was appointed as the prestigious Sir Hayden Stark Professor at Law at Monash University.