Amarasinghe v. Acquiring Officer, Kegalle – sllr 2008 volume 1 page 120

The case between Amarasininghe (landowner, appellant) and the Acquiring Officer, Kegalle (respondent), concerned whether an appeal challenging compensation awarded for acquired property could proceed despite the petition not expressly stating the question of law as required by section 28(2) of the Land Acquisition Act. It was determined that averments within the petition sufficiently indicated questions of law. The findings established that section 28 requires a liberal and beneficial interpretation, permitting questions of law to be apparent in the content, not necessarily in expressly formulated terms. The rule was reaffirmed that technical noncompliance does not preclude substantive justice, relying on analogous precedents and interpretative principles. The outcome permitted the appeal