Regent Homes (Pvt.) Ltd. vs Attorney General, Attorney General – CA RII/0015/2019-2022

In the case between Rajapakshe Waidyalankara Ratnadhipathi Gedara Tharanga Udayanganee Rajapakse (plaintiff-respondent) and Regent Homes (Pvt.) Ltd. (primary defendant-petitioner), the court addressed whether orders issued by the District Court of Kaduwela exhibited bias warranting intervention by way of restitutio in integrum and revision. The findings established that apparent judicial bias had been demonstrated in the impugned orders, justifying their being set aside. The principle reaffirmed by this decision is that the remedy of restitutio in integrum is an extraordinary one to be exercised most cautiously, and that revision is discretionary, dependent in part on the conduct of the moving party. This determination was grounded in established Sri Lankan case law, including prior author