Mewella Arachchilage Ratnatilaka Meewella vs Mewella Arachchilage Saranelis Meewella – CA NO: 1151/98 F -2013

In the case between Mewella Arachchilage Saranelis Meewella (Plaintiff-Respondent) and Mewella Arachchilage Ratnatilaka Meewella (5th Defendant-Appellant), the court addressed whether the District Judge of Avissawella erred in refusing to amend the allocation of shares in a partition judgment following a petition citing unchallenged trial evidence. It was determined that refusal to amend the share allocation was a misdirection, as Section 189 of the Civil Procedure Code allows corrections to court records to reflect uncontested facts evidenced at trial. The decision reaffirmed the principle that courts possess statutory authority to correct their own records post-judgment where factual matters are not in dispute and legal or new factual issues are not implicated, thereby upholding procedur