Oretra Enterprises & Others v. Wijekoon – sllr 2003 volume 3 page 001

In the case between the injured Plaintiff–Respondent and multiple Defendants–Appellants, including the owner of a petrol bowser, certain individual partners, and an employed driver, the court addressed the issue of whether a partnership constitutes a juristic person that can be sued as a separate entity under Sri Lankan law. The court held that a partnership is not a distinct juristic person and thus cannot be sued in its own name, reaffirming the procedural requirement that all individual partners must be joined as parties to any suit against a partnership. This decision relied on the Civil Procedure Code of Sri Lanka and was supported by authoritative references, including Letchemanan v Sanmugam, underscoring the distinction between Sri Lankan and English procedural law concerning partne