Bastian Koralage Denzil Anthony Chrishantha Rodrigo Weerasinghe Gunawardena Vs. A. Ralph Senake Deraniyagala and others – SC APPEAL NO. 44/2006-2010

In the case between Bastian Koralage Denzil Anthony Chrishantha Rodrigo Weerasinghe Gunawardena (Defendant/Appellant) and respondents including A. Ralph Senake Deraniyagala, Hilda Niloo Edward de Saram, Shiran Upendra Deraniyagala, Hasley Limited, and N.K. Thambipillai, the court examined the issue of whether disputed land was vested in the Land Reform Commission under the Land Reform Law and if the Commission could divest title through a letter (document P18), as well as whether new legal grounds regarding vesting could be raised on appeal when such matters were not presented at trial. It was held that arguments relating to the Commission’s divestiture of title raised for the first time on appeal could not be entertained without supporting evidence from the trial proceedings, and the docu