Dahanaka Ralalage Somawathie vs. Meegahawattege Nilanthi Padma Malani – CA PHC APPEAL NO.69/2012-2014

In the case between Dahanaka Ralalage Somawathie (Appellant) and Meegahawattege Nilanthi Padma Malani (Respondent) alongside three other respondent-respondents, the court addressed whether the orders made by the Magistrate and the High Court Judge, which granted the first party respondent and intervenient respondents the right to use a six-feet-wide roadway over land of the appellant, should be set aside. It was determined that the respondents’ longstanding and uncontested use of the roadway since 1995 was established, and that the procedural bar existed due to a previous revision application on the same matter. The appeal was dismissed, reaffirming the principle that appellate intervention is unwarranted where no error or procedural irregularity appears in the lower court’s orders and whe