Migallage Gamlath Ralalage Wijesinghe vs. A.M. Jayasundara and Kusuma Jayasundara – CA PHC 162/2015-2015

In the case between Migallage Gamlath Ralalage Wijesinghe (Petitioner-Appellant) and A.M. Jayasundara and Kusuma Jayasundara (Respondent-Respondents), the court considered the validity of an appeal arising from an order of the Provincial High Court issued under revisionary jurisdiction, following the dismissal of the petitioner’s application in the Magistrate’s Court. It was held that the appeal constituted an application for review of the High Court’s exercise of its revisionary jurisdiction rather than a direct appeal against the Magistrate’s order. The holding reaffirmed the established principle that exceptional or compelling circumstances are required to invoke revisionary jurisdiction and that procedural delays and lack of substantiated justification for absence or delay, as demonstr