Civaro Lanka (Pvt.) Limited vs Auslanka Paper Company (Pvt.) Limited – CA REVISION/APN – 04/2015-2015

In the case between Civaro Lanka (Pvt.) Limited and Auslanka Paper Company (Pvt.) Limited, the Court of Appeal addressed whether it possessed revisionary jurisdiction to review or revise decisions of the Commercial High Court under the High Court of the Province (Special Provision) Act No. 10 of 1996, particularly when an appeal was already pending before the Supreme Court. It was held that jurisdiction for both appeals and revision applications from civil matters of the Commercial High Court lies exclusively with the Supreme Court, and revision applications cannot be entertained by the Court of Appeal. The principle reaffirmed is that statutory provisions vesting appellate and revisionary oversight in the Supreme Court preclude parallel recourse to the Court of Appeal. Reliance was placed