Hettiarachchilage Gunarathne Bandara vs. Jayawardena Rupasinghe Mudiyanselage Nayanananda Kumara Amarasinghe & others – CA WRT 0400/24-2025

The case between Hettiarachchilage Gunarathne Bandara (“Budugewatta”), representing the petitioner, and Jayawardena Rupasinghe Mudiyanselage Nayanananda Kumara Amarasinghe, Shyma Hemamali Godagama, along with officials from the Debt Conciliation Board and the Ministry of Justice, addressed the issue of whether an amended petition may introduce new causes of action arising after the filing of the original application. It was held that amendments introducing such new causes of action are impermissible, reaffirming the principle that the filing date fixes the substantive limits of the petition. This decision relied on relevant procedural rules and the precedent established in Kusala Hasanthi Perera and another vs. Gayantha Karunatilleke and others, emphasizing that amendment to pleadings cann