A.R.P.Kumara v. Hon Attorney General – CA 46/2016-2016

In the case between A.R.P. Kumara and the Hon. Attorney General, the court considered whether an appeal against conviction should be permitted to be withdrawn and determined the proper application of concurrent sentences for multiple counts, as well as the commencement date for imprisonment. The holding established that, upon the appellant’s request and with no objection from the prosecution, the appeal was dismissed as withdrawn, and the sentences imposed for two counts arising from the same transaction were to run concurrently from the date of conviction. The principle reaffirmed was that sentences emanating from a single transaction may run concurrently, and that remand periods can be considered in dating the commencement of the sentence. The decision was grounded in the application of