Alliance Finance Company PLC vs. Asurumuni Arachchilage Abeysekara – SC/APPEAL/215/2014-2024

In the case between Alliance Finance Company PLC (Plaintiff/Appellant) and Asurumuni Arachchilage Abeysekara, Munasinghe Arachchilage Premalal Jayarathna, and Randunapura Dewage Vajira Vithasiri (Respondents), the Supreme Court considered whether the petitioner’s application for enforcement of an arbitral award satisfied the requirements of the Arbitration Act, including certification standards, and addressed the procedural consistency of the Commercial High Court regarding the document marked P5. The findings established that the statutory scheme under the Arbitration Act is designed to facilitate, rather than restrict, enforcement of arbitral awards, and that subsequent objections to technical non-compliance lacked merit when considered in light of the case record and precedent. The Supr