K.G. Somawathie vs. Y.R. Upul, Y.R. Nimal Jayathilaka, W.G. Gunadasa – SC APPEAL 47/21-2022

In the case between K.G. Somawathie (Plaintiff-Respondent) and Y. R. Upul, Y.R. Nimal Jayathilaka, and W.G. Gunadasa (Defendants-Appellants), the court addressed whether the District Judge’s previous judgment properly resolved all issues raised in the second trial, as required by a prior Supreme Court directive. It was determined that the Supreme Court’s earlier instructions mandated the District Judge to pronounce judgment on all issues arising at the subsequent trial without reopening the case’s merits. The Additional District Judge’s 2016 judgment was found to have complied with this directive by addressing issues 1-27 comprehensively. As a result, the appeal was dismissed with costs, reaffirming the principle that compliance with higher court directives on procedural completeness is pa