Paskaralingam By His Attorney At Law v. Perera, P.R.P. and Others – sllr 1998 volume 2 page 169

In the case between Paskaralingam (Plaintiff) and P. R. P. Perera and others (Defendants), the court addressed whether the interim report of a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry was rendered legally void due to the non-participation of one Commissioner (Justice F. N. D. Jayasuriya) after November 12, 1996. The core issue involved the interpretation of Section 3 of the Special Presidential Commissions of Inquiry Law, No. 7 of 1978, concerning the continued validity of decisions made by a commission when a member is absent but remains nominally in office. It was determined that the legitimacy of the Commission’s interim report—signed only by two of the three originally appointed members—depended upon whether all appointed members must actively participate in the decision-making proce