Property Finance and Investment (Pvt) Ltd vs Sri Lanka Savings Bank Limited – SC CHC APPEAL 26/2018-2024

In the case between Sri Lanka Savings Bank Limited and Property Finance and Investment (Pvt) Ltd, Medagodage Thusitha Wijayasena, and Ganegoda Liyanage Don Swarna Wijayasena, the court addressed the admissibility of certain evidentiary documents under the Evidence Ordinance and the viability of the appellant’s defenses regarding prescription and ignorance as bars to the Respondent Bank’s recovery of outstanding loan sums. It was held that the challenged documents (P7, P8, P9, P10, P14, and P15) were properly admissible and fulfilled evidentiary requirements, and that the appellants’ defenses did not raise a bona fide issue against the bank’s claims. The decision reaffirmed the principle that documentary evidence, when duly certified or established as generated in the routine course of busi