Organization Of Protection Of Human Rights And Rights Of Insurance Employees And Others v. Public Enterprises Reform Commission And Others – sllr 2007 volume 2 page 316

In the case between the Organization of Protection of Human Rights and Rights of Insurance Employees and Others (including trade unions and an employee of SUC Ltd) and the Public Enterprises Reform Commission and Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Ltd, the court addressed whether the refusal to grant extensions of service to employees beyond the age of 55 constituted executive or administrative action under Article 126 of the Constitution. It was held that, following the privatization of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation Ltd and the removal of effective state control, the refusal did not amount to executive or administrative action, and the petition was dismissed. This decision reaffirmed that only acts attributable to state agencies or instrumentalities are subject to fundamental rights jurisd