Angappuly Radage Mettananda Chandrawansha vs Director, Plantation Management Monitoring Division, et al. – CA CASE NO. WRT- 0265/19-2023

In the case between Angappuly Radage Mettananda Chandrawansha Manandola (petitioner) and the Director of the Plantation Management Monitoring Division, Ministry of Plantation officials, Agalawatta Plantation PLC, and others (respondents), the court examined the survival of a writ application seeking to quash an ejectment notice under the State Lands (Recovery of Possession) Act No. 7 of 1979, following the death of the petitioner. The key issue concerned whether the application should be dismissed due to the absence of a memorandum nominating a legal representative pursuant to Part VI of the Court of Appeal (Appellate Procedure) Rules 2018, and whether substitution of the petitioner’s wife as legal representative was permissible. It was held that the application survives the petitioner’s d