August 30, 2013
Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena*, Gehan Gunatilleke** & Prameetha Abeywickreme***
Originally published in the LST Review, Volume 23, Issue 306 & 307, April & May 2013
Introduction
The Nature of Impunity
ction petition proceedings relating to the election of the President himself under Article 130(a)of the Constitution. The Court also held that the Ceylon (Parliamentary Elections) Orderin Council of 1946 has not been elevated to constitutional status and that the requirements of joinder of parties set out in section 80A(1)(b) of the Order in Council cannot supersede Article 35(1) of the Constitution. Hence no petition can be instituted impleading the President as a respondent.
