Tilwin Silva v. Ranil Wickremasinghe and Others – sllr 2007 volume 2 page 015

The case between Tilwin Silva (General-Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna) and Ranil Wickremasinghe (Prime Minister at the relevant time), with additional respondents including members of the Cabinet and government, addressed the issue of whether the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) entered into between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE constituted a valid policy decision or was illegal, null, and void. The court held that the CFA is a collective policy decision of the Cabinet that does not invoke statutory power and, therefore, is not subject to judicial review. It was established that such a policy document does not give rise to legal consequences amenable to certiorari or prohibition, reaffirming the principle of Cabinet collective responsibility and the limitations of judicial