Jayasuriya v. Sri Lanka State Plantations Corporation – sllr 1995 volume 2 page 379

In the case between Jayasuriya (the dismissed superintendent of Blackwater State Plantation) and the Sri Lanka State Plantations Corporation, the court addressed whether the Respondent’s failure to file written submissions within the prescribed 30-day period under Rule 35 was excusable, the justification for the Petitioner’s dismissal for alleged gross misconduct and mismanagement, and the appropriate remedy for wrongful dismissal including the method of compensation calculation. It was held that the Respondent’s delay in filing was inexcusable, the Labour Tribunal’s and Court of Appeal’s findings were perverse, and the Petitioner’s dismissal was wrongful. The principle reaffirmed was that in cases of wrongful dismissal, compensation—calculated for both immediate and prospective losses—is