Wijetunge v. Insurance Corporation and Another – sllr 1982 volume 1 page 001

In Wijetunga v. Insurance Corporation of Sri Lanka and Another, the Supreme Court was required to determine whether disciplinary measures imposed upon a trade union official by the Insurance Corporation infringed the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, expression, publication, and trade union activity as protected under Articles 14(1)(a) and 14(1)(d) of the Constitution. The court held that the disciplinary actions by the Insurance Corporation did not constitute “executive or administrative action” within the meaning of Article 126, thereby placing such actions beyond the court’s jurisdiction to grant relief for alleged infringements of fundamental rights in this context. The court reaffirmed the principle that not all acts of public corporations are attributable to the State for purp