| Honorific-Prefix: | Deshamanya |
| Shiva Pasupati | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | PC |
| Order1: | 34th |
| Office1: | Attorney General of Sri Lanka |
| Term Start1: | 5 June 1975 |
| Term End1: | 1988 |
| Predecessor1: | Victor Tennekoon |
| Successor1: | Pandikoralalage Sunil Chandra De Silva |
| Order2: | 28th |
| Office2: | Solicitor General of Sri Lanka |
| Term Start2: | 1974 |
| Term End2: | 1975 |
| Predecessor2: | R. S. Wanasundera |
| Successor2: | I. F. B. Wickramanayake |
| Alma Mater: | Ananda College Jaffna Hindu College University of Ceylon |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
| Blank1: | Ethnicity |
| Data1: | Sri Lankan Tamil |
Deshamanya Shivakumaran Pasupati is a leading Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, President's Counsel, Solicitor General and Attorney General.
Pasupati is the son of physician V. T. Pasupati and Kamalambikai.[1] [2] He was educated at the Ananda College and Jaffna Hindu College.[3] [2] After school he joined the University of Ceylon from where he graduated with a degree in law.[4] He then obtained Post-Graduate Diploma in International Law from the University of Cambridge.[4]
Pasupati was Director of Public Prosecutions.[5] He was Solicitor General between 1974 and 1975.[6] He then served as Attorney General from 1975 to 1988.[1] [2] [7] Pasupati is a President's Counsel.[1]
Pasupati was awarded the Deshamanya title, the second highest Sri Lankan national honour, in 1989.[8]
Pasupati moved to Australia and served as a legal advisor for the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[9] [10] He took part in the Norwegian peace process between 2002 and 2006.[11] [12] [13]
Pasupati is chairman of Australians for Human Rights of the Voiceless and president of the Tamil Senior Citizens' Association (NSW).[14] [15]