Assallage Sujith Rupasinghe Vs. The Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC/APN/50/21-2021

In the case between The Hon. Attorney General and Assallage Sujith Rupasinghe, with Mrs. P.M Ranasinghe as the aggrieved party-petitioner, the Court of Appeal addressed whether the High Court’s order dated 2.2.21, permitting the defense to call witness No. 3 (who was never a prosecution witness), should be revised under the court’s revisionary jurisdiction. It was determined that the previous orders of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court applied only to prosecution witnesses 2, 4, and 5, not to the current witness at issue. The necessity for exceptional circumstances to invoke revisionary jurisdiction, as established by precedent, was underscored. The application was dismissed after finding no exceptional circumstances or jurisdictional errors, reaffirming the principle that revision is