John Keels Ltd. v. Kuruppu – sllr 1996 volume 2 page 006

In the case between John Keels Ltd. (Plaintiff) and Kuruppu (Defendant), the court addressed whether the presentation of a commission report pursuant to Sections 430–436 of the Civil Procedure Code constituted evidence of a settlement or compromise under Section 408, sufficient to warrant judgment without further documentation. It was held that the issuance of the commission was intended solely as a practical procedural step and did not amount to an agreement or compromise between the parties. The findings established that the commission report is merely evidentiary in nature, without the status of a judicial finding, as emphasized in Section 432(2). The judgment reaffirmed that the absence of a recorded settlement precluded entry of judgment based on the commission report alone, and the a