About Dharmasena

Dharmasena Yakandawela is the founder and chairman of YLD Law Corporation. Originally from Sri Lanka, he graduated top of his class from the Faculty of Law at the University of Colombo in 1993 and served as a District Judge and Magistrate in Sri Lanka for over thirty years, working as both a lawyer and a judge. He migrated to Canada in 2006, later trained at the University of British Columbia to become a certified Canadian immigration consultant, and was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2017. He is a life member of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of British Columbia, and now practices in immigration law and general law. He sits on the Joint Family Court and Youth Justice Committee and has been involved in advocating for constitutional change in Sri Lanka.

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