Kamal Priyadarshana Pannila Vithanage vs Ms. Vayoma Paranagama and others – CA COC/8/19-2021

In Kamal Priyadarshana Pannila Vithanage v. Ms. Vayoma Paranagama, Deputy Chief Legal Officer, Seylan Bank PLC, and others, the Supreme Court addressed whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing the petitioner’s application to invoke its inherent jurisdiction to set aside a prior order, without issuing notice to the respondents. The matter centered on whether the petitioner had established a ‘grave miscarriage’ of justice sufficient to revisit a matter already adjudicated under res judicata. It was held that the petitioner failed to meet the threshold for invoking inherent jurisdiction, as no grave miscarriage of justice was established. Consequently, the application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court was dismissed, reinforcing the principle that inherent jurisdiction to set asi