Sri Lanka Standards Institution vs. Commissioner General of Labour and Others – sllr 2020 volume 3 page 038

In the matter between Sri Lanka Standards Institution and the Commissioner General of Labour and others, the court addressed whether the petitioner’s omission of a material eligibility criterion for promotion—specifically, the “equivalent qualification approved by the Ministry”—constituted suppression or misrepresentation warranting dismissal of a writ of certiorari. It was held that the omission amounted to a breach of the duty of utmost good faith (uberrima fides) required in applications for writ relief and justified summary dismissal. The findings reaffirmed the principle that all material facts must be disclosed when seeking discretionary remedies, relying on established case law on procedural propriety in judicial review and referencing the regulatory ambit of the Industrial Disputes