Kodagoda Dayaseeli Serasundara v. Assistant Commissioner of Agrarian Development – SP/HCCA/GA/WRIT/05/2009-2015

In the case between Kodagoda Dayaseeli Serasundara (Petitioner) and the Assistant Commissioner of Agrarian Development, Galle District Office, Bertici Gunawardane, Kathaluwa Liyanage Upali, and the Hon. Attorney General, the primary issue addressed was whether the Court of Appeal possessed jurisdiction to entertain a revision application against an order issued by the Civil Appellate High Court of Galle in its exercise of writ jurisdiction under Article 154P of the Constitution, or whether such jurisdiction lay exclusively with the Supreme Court. The holding determined that, where the Civil Appellate High Court exercised writ jurisdiction pursuant to then-applicable directives and no jurisdictional objection was raised at the proper stage, the petitioner was entitled under Article 154P(b)