Ranasinghe Arachchige Piyasena and others vs Sapinona Sendanayaka and others – SC/SPL/LA/86/2021-2024

This case involves an appeal concerning the lawfulness of a Court of Appeal judgment. The Supreme Court considered whether the judgment was improperly constituted by incorporating verbatim portions of the Plaintiff-Respondent’s written submissions without independent judicial evaluation. Special Leave to Appeal was granted on these questions of law.

YASANTHA KODAGODA, PC, J. – Special Leave to Appeal was granted on the questions of whether the Court of Appeal’s judgment dated 25.03.2021 was lawful and, if not, whether it should be set aside. It was observed that the impugned judgment incorporated over seventeen instances of verbatim portions from the Plaintiff-Respondent’s post-argument written submissions without attribution, indicating a lack of independent judicial evaluation and appea