Brooke Bond (Ceylon) Ltd. v. Stassen Exports Ltd. and Another – sllr 1990 volume 1 page 061

In the case between Brooke Bond (Ceylon) Ltd. and Stassen Exports Ltd. (and the Registrar of Trade Marks), the court addressed procedural objections regarding the correct process for seeking leave to appeal under section 182(3) of the Code of Intellectual Property Act. The court held that the appellant had properly followed the procedure for interlocutory appeals, and the preliminary objections to the appeal process were accordingly overruled. This holding reaffirmed the principle that appeal procedures should align with the current legal framework as updated by the Administration of Justice Law and the amended Civil Procedure Code, rather than relying on the obsolete Civil Appellate Rules of 1938. The decision emphasized the primacy of statutory evolution in governing appellate practice a