Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Luxman Dissanayake and Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Upali Dissanayake vs Lionel Gunasiri Bandara Jayasinghe et al. – CA WRT/0027/2020-2023

In the case between Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Luxman Dissanayake and Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Upali Dissanayake (Petitioners) and Lionel Gunasiri Bandara Jayasinghe, Rohan Sivananda Perera Siriwardena, the Urban Council of Kegalle, among others (Respondents), the court addressed the issue of whether the Petitioners were entitled to prerogative writ reliefs—Certiorari, Prohibition, and Mandamus—concerning a land dispute under Article 140 of the Constitution despite the pendency of a partition action in the District Court. It was held that the application for writ remedies was misconceived given the existence of an adequate alternative remedy via the partition proceedings, reaffirming the established principle that writ jurisdiction should not be invoked where alternative legal remedies are