Madhurage Nuwan Madhurage v. Dona Malkanthi Abewickrema – CA PHC/102/2015-2017

In the case between Madhurage Nuwan Madhurage and Madhurage Janaka Jagathpriya (appellants) and Dona Malkanthi Abewickrema, Thapassara Muhandiramlage Nishantha, Thapassara Muhandiramlage Achala Kumari, and I W Anuruddha Saman Kumara (respondents), the court addressed the issue of whether the Primary Court and the Provincial High Court correctly interpreted and applied section 68 of the Primary Courts Procedure Act in determining possession of disputed land and whether dispossession occurred within the statutorily relevant period. It was held that the lower courts had applied the statutory framework correctly and that the respondents were properly determined to be entitled to possession at the relevant time. The holding reaffirmed the principle that appellate and revisionary intervention is