Government Medical Officers Association and Another v. Senanayahe – sllr 2001 volume 3 page 377

In the case between the plaintiff/respondent (a party challenging the legality of a strike, including named respondents such as the Government Medical Officers Association and its executive members) and defendant/petitioner (the GMOA and its executive), the court addressed the lawfulness of a strike action undertaken by the GMOA and its procedural aftermath. The court determined that the consent of the plaintiff/respondent to the granting of leave to appeal estopped subsequent procedural objections, that the procedural route adopted by the GMOA to seek leave to appeal (rather than a direct appeal) was permissible, and that statutory terms such as “shall” in Section 798 of the Civil Procedure Code should be construed permissively. It was established that interlocutory orders do not attract