Anthony v. Weerasinghe – sllr 2000 volume 2 page 212

In Anthony v. Weerasinghe, the central issue concerned the procedural requirements in a suit for libel, specifically whether the failure to set out the libel verbatim in the language of publication within the plaint negates the existence of a cause of action and whether subsequent amendment to include the verbatim text should be permitted. It was determined that the prescribed form of a plaint under the Civil Procedure Code serves as a model and does not govern the substantive right to relief, with the factual allegations in the plaint forming the basis of the cause of action. The previously issued order refusing to grant leave to amend was set aside, and the amendment to incorporate the libel verbatim was allowed. The case reaffirmed that procedural technicalities cannot defeat substantiv