Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. v. Jayasinghe – sllr 1982 volume 2 page 595

The case between The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. and employees M.B. Jayasinghe and Upali Ariyachandra involved judicial consideration of whether applications for relief under section 31B of the Industrial Disputes Act, when submitted in English, satisfied the language requirements imposed by Article 11(1) of the 1972 Constitution. Additionally, the court considered the correct approach for awarding compensation in scenarios of unjust termination, addressing whether separate back wages are to be granted when compensation already takes lost earnings into account. It was determined that the language provisions did not mandate applications to be in Sinhala, and that an applicant could submit an application in the language of choice, provided the contents were affirmed. Regarding monet