Haji Omar v. Wickremasinghe and Other – sllr 2001 volume 3 page 061

In the case between Haji Omar (Plaintiff) and Wickremasinghe and Others (Defendants), the court addressed the procedural issue of whether, in applications for leave to appeal under the High Court of the Provinces (Special Provisions) Act No. 10 of 1996, a specific Court order is required for the Registrar to dispatch the Notice of Application to the respondents, or whether the Registrar is independently authorized to take such action. The holding established that the Registrar possesses the authority to transmit the Notice of Application for leave to appeal to the respondents directly, without the necessity for an additional Court order. The ruling reaffirmed the principle that statutory procedural mandates, as outlined in section 757(2) of the Civil Procedure Code (as amended by Act No. 3