Walpola Kankanamalage Chandrasinghe Monaravila vs. Piyaseeli Wickramasinghee Mathurata, Chairman of the Debt Conciliation Board, Gampaha. and others – CA/WRIT/0337/2022-2025

In the case between Walpola Kankanamalage Chandrasinghe Monaravila and Piyaseeli Wickramasinghee Mathurata (Chairman of the Debt Conciliation Board, Gampaha), with other Board members and parties as Respondents, the court addressed the issue of whether the Debt Conciliation Board possessed jurisdiction to determine a property dispute under the Debt Conciliation Ordinance, the sufficiency of service of statutory notice to the Petitioner, and the appropriateness of challenging Board orders by writs of certiorari and mandamus. The court determined that the dispute was primarily contractual and civil in nature, more suitably resolved through ordinary trial rather than by way of writ jurisdiction. The court relied on precedents such as GUNADASA v. ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Jayaweera v. Wijeratne, and r