Ministry responds to Australian court’s judgement in former SL’s Deputy High Commissioner case

The attention of the Foreign Affairs Ministry has been drawn to the recent media reports regarding a judgement given by the Australian Federal Court in a case against the former Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Canberra.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry wishes to state that it is the standard practice that diplomats are facilitated by the Foreign Affairs Ministry to take domestic assistants to assist their official representational duties. The domestic assistant in question served a full three-year term, and on the eve of the employer’s originally intended departure from Australia, absconded the residence of the employer.  The allowance approved by the Ministry as the salary of the employee has been paid to her. The Ministry is satisfied that the said salary was paid to the domestic assistant by the employer as mutually agreed.

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