Yapa Mudiyanselage Chandrika Jayatissa vs Wildlife Conservation Officer and other – CA PHC 154/19-2024

In the case between the Wildlife Conservation Officer (and the Wildlife Conservation Office) and Yapa Mudiyanselage Chandrika Jayatissa, with the Director General, Department of Wildlife Conservation as an added respondent, the court addressed the sustainability of a revision application seeking to set aside the orders of the Learned Magistrate and the Learned High Court, focusing on procedural and jurisdictional issues surrounding the eviction from state land. The dismissal of the application reaffirmed the principle that judicial revisionary jurisdiction may only be exercised where specific legal errors or procedural irregularities are established. The decision was grounded on an assessment of proper service of quit notices, the jurisdictional limits of the Magistrate, the validity of af