Seneviratne v. Tissa Dias Bandaranayake and Another – sllr 1999 volume 2 page 341

In the case between the petitioner, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police, and Tissa Dias Bandaranayake (Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry) alongside another respondent, the court addressed whether the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry violated principles of natural justice, specifically the right to be heard (audi alteram partem), by failing to offer the petitioner an opportunity to be heard before issuing adverse findings. Jurisdictional questions regarding the court’s authority to review the defunct Commission’s decisions and the function of such review under the Special Presidential Commissions of Inquiry Law were examined. The findings established that the Commission’s methods—reliance on police-collected evidence and the lack of notice to the petitioner about the inquiry