Kuttapitiye Gedera Kiri Mudiyanse v. Jagath Lakshmal Sirisena – CA NO. 567/97 F -2015

In the case between Jagath Lakshmal Sirisena (Plaintiff/Respondent) and Kuttapitiye Gedera Kiri Mudiyanse and others (Defendants/Appellants), the court addressed whether the ex parte judgment of the District Court of Rathnapura, rendered after the defendants’ absence at trial, should be set aside for procedural and substantive insufficiencies. It was held that procedural fairness and adequate judicial analysis are mandatory, even in ex parte proceedings, reaffirming the principle that every judgment must be based on thorough evidentiary evaluation and judicial reasoning. Reliance was placed on Article 138(1) of the Constitution, Section 753 of the Civil Procedure Code, and relevant case law allowing for revisionary intervention where manifest error or miscarriage of justice is evident. The