Gunawardane v. Gunawardane – CA APPEAL NO. 216/2000-2017

In the case between Lester Clarence Gunawardane (as substituted Petitioner/Respondent) and Nevanka Gunawardane Liyanapathiranage (2nd Respondent/Appellant), the court addressed the issue of whether the date on which a judgment is pronounced should be included or excluded when computing the sixty-day period for filing a petition of appeal under Section 755(3) of the Civil Procedure Code. It was held that the day of pronouncement of the judgment must be excluded in such computation, reaffirming the principle that, unless expressly stated otherwise, statutory language employing “from” a certain date requires exclusion of that date from the calculation. This decision relied on Section 14(a) of the Interpretation Ordinance and supporting case law, emphasizing that appeals presented on the sixti