Nadugala Vidhana Pathiranage Piyadasa Rathuralagewatte vs Hon. Attorney General – CA PHC APN/65/2017-2017

In the case between Nadugala Vidhana Pathiranage Piyadasa Rathuralagewatte (Petitioner) and the Hon. Attorney General and Officer-in-Charge, Police Station, Maharagama (Respondents), the court addressed whether a revision application could be entertained when the Petitioner had failed to comply with the requirement to file a certified copy of the impugned proceedings under the Court of Appeal (Appellate Procedure) Rules 1990. It was held that strict compliance with mandatory procedural rules is necessary, and a ‘true copy’ certified by an Attorney-at-Law does not satisfy the requirement of a “certified copy.” The holding reaffirmed the principle that failure to observe such mandatory procedural requirements renders the application incompetent, thus precluding the exercise of the Court’s ju