Courtaulds Trading Company (Pvt) Ltd v. P. J. R. A. S. S. Ranasinghe & Juliet A. Yambao – CA WRIT/196/2022-2022

In the case between Courtaulds Trading Company (Pvt) Ltd and P. J. R. A. S. S. Ranasinghe (President of the Labour Tribunal) and Juliet A. Yambao, the court addressed the issue of whether writs of Certiorari and Prohibition should be issued to quash certain orders made by the President of the Labour Tribunal, particularly regarding the conduct of witness examination and adherence to the principles of natural justice within LT case no. LT/13/141/2015. It was held that prerogative writs were not warranted since the impugned decisions related to procedural handling and did not reach the threshold required for intervention by way of judicial review. The principal rule reaffirmed was that judicial review is confined to the legality and process of the decision-making, rather than its merits, and