Salinda Dissanayake et al. v. Koralagamage Sydny Sunimal Kularatne et al. – SC APPEAL NO. 66/2020-2023

In the matter between several registered homeopathy practitioners and intervenient petitioners versus the Minister of Health, secretaries, and interim committee members regulating homeopathic practitioner registration, the Supreme Court addressed whether the Court of Appeal erred by not giving a hearing to the intervenient petitioners whose registration interests were affected by the lower court decision. It was held that the failure of the Court of Appeal to hear the intervenient petitioners prior to its 15 May 2019 judgment constituted a breach of natural justice (audi alteram partem). The Supreme Court determined the impugned judgment required variation to reflect this procedural irregularity, reaffirming the principle that all necessary parties adversely affected by litigation must be