Wickramasinghe v. Sri Lanka State Trading Corporation Added In Place of Consolidated Exports Limited – sllr 1990 volume 1 page 328

The case between Wickramasinghe and the Sri Lanka State Trading Corporation (successor to Consolidated Exports Limited) addressed whether a former employee could claim relief from a new corporation that did not employ him, following the substitution of parties after the acquisition of company shares. The court held that jurisdiction cannot be conferred by consent or substitution, nor does such consent amount to an admission of liability where there was no employment relationship between the applicant and respondent at the material time. The principle reaffirmed that statutory requirements for employer-employee relationships and tribunal jurisdiction cannot be waived by the parties. The decision relied on established statutory frameworks and precedents, including In re S. S. Arnaldo de Bres