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NOTICE 03/14/2025

March 14, 2025 08:43

CONSTITUTION OF BENCHES FROM MONDAY 17.03.2025 ONWARDS

 

(A) The Constitution of Benches of the Court of Appeal from 17 th March 2025, which shall be operative until further notice, is set out in the Schedule hereof.

(B) In all matters, the Rules of the Court of Appeal shall be applied and followed in a uniform, consistent and fair manner.

(C) Once an argument commences, all Counsel shall endeavour to conclude oral submissions on the same day. However, if conclusion of the argument cannot be reached on the same day, further argument shall be fixed for a date within the shortest possible time, and if that is not possible, within the following three weeks, and not beyond.

(D) Where a Specially Constituted Bench has been nominated to hear and determine a matter, and any one or more of the Judges of that Bench have been elevated to the Supreme Court, Such matter shall be referred to the President of the Court of Appeal, who may refer such matter to the Division of this Court which has now been assigned the hearing of such matter in terms of this Notice, or who may nominate a new Special Bench to hear and conclude such matter.

(E) All other matters where a specially constituted Bench has been nominated shall be taken up before the same Bench or same presiding Judge in the Court Room in which the Presiding Judge of that Bench is sitting in terms of this Notice.

(F) All new applications filed on an extremely urgent basis will be accommodated at the discretion of the presiding Judge of the relevant court and may be mentioned on a desired day only if such application is duly filed (with proof of dispatch of notice to the Respondents) at least before 10.00 a.m. on the day prior to such desired date.

 

By Order of the
ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE COURT OF APPEAL.

 

 

W.E.F. – 17.03.2025 (Wednesday)

 

Court Room No. Bench Nature of Work
301 Hon. Justice M.T. Mohommed Laffar
Acting (P/CA)
Hon. Justice K.P. Fernando
  • Writ applications filed from 01/01/2023 onwards
  • Appeals, Revisions , Leave to Appeal Applications from
    & Writs or any other matter related to the Wakfs Board
    and Quazi Courts.
  • Transfer Applications
  • Expulsion Cases
  • All Contempt of Court Applications
  • Election Petition Cases
  • Any other matters not referred to in this Notice.
302 Hon. Justice S.U.B. Karalliyadde
  • Writ Applications, transferred from Court 301 on the
    directions of His Lordship the President of the Court
    of Appeal, whenever necessary.
205 Hon. Justice R. Gurusinghe
Hon. Justice Sumudu Premachandra
  • All remaining Final Appeals from District Courts.
  • All Restitutio in Integrum applications.
  • All Admiralty matters.
  • All Injunction applications.
  • All Habeas Corpus applications.
  • All Appeals under the Right to Information Act.
  • Writ Applications filed from 01/09/2022 to 31/12/2022
  • Writ Applications, transferred from Court 301 on the directions of His Lordship the President of the Court of Appeal, whenever
    necessary.
109 Hon. Justice Dhammika Ganepola
Hon. Justice Damith Thotawatta
  • All Writ Applications filed from 2004 to 2018 (odd numbers and even numbers)
  • All Writ Applications filed in 2019 and 2020 (even numbers)
  • Writ Applications, transferred from Court 301 on the directions of His Lordship the President of the Court of Appeal, whenever
    necessary.
303 Hon. Justice Mayadunna Corea
Hon. Justice Mahen Gopallawa
  • All Writ Application filed in 2021 (even numbers)
  • All Writ Applications filed from 1 st January 2022 to 31 st August 2022.
  • Writ Applications, transferred from Court 301 on the directions of His Lordship the President of the Court of Appeal, whenever
    necessary.
107 Hon. Justice P. Kumararatnam
Hon. Justice K.M.S. Dissanayake
  • All High Court Criminal Appeals (odd numbers)
  • All Bail Applications
  • Bail Appeals from High Court (BAA)
110 Hon. Justice Sasi Mahendran
Hon. Justice Amal Ranaraja
  • All High Court Criminal Appeal (even numbers)
  • Appeals and Revision applications from the Provincial High Court (Criminal Cases)
  • Extradition Cases
  • Leave to Appeal Applications (Criminal)
  • MCR Application
  • Miscellaneous Applications (Criminal).
204 Hon. Justice M.A.R. Marikar
Hon. Justice R. Pradeep Hettiarachchi
  • Appeals and Revision Applications from the Provincial High Court (Civil Cases)
  • Land Acquisition Board of Review cases
  • Leave to Appeal Applications (Civil)
  • Miscellaneous Applications (Civil)
  • Writ Applications, transferred from Court 301 on the directions of His Lordship the President of the Court of Appeal, whenever necessary.
108 Hon. Justice Chamath Morais
Hon. Justice Premashankar
  • All Inland Revenue cases stated by the Tax Appeals Commission
206 Hon. Justice Gihan Kulatunga
  • All writ applications filed in 2019, 2020 & 2021 (odd numbers)
  • Writ Applications, transferred from Court 301 on the directions of His Lordship the President of the Court of Appeal, whenever necessary.

 


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