Failure to issue summons and its effect

Civil Procedure S.55, 59, 60 & 63 - mandatory - failure to issue summons - its effect - duty of the trial court 

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In this case, the 1st Plaintiff had tendered summons to be issued to the Petitioner, the said motion had never been minuted and hence there is no order to issue summons.

held - it is the duty cast upon the trial court to satisfy that the provisions of Sections 55, 59, 60 and 63 has been duly complied with and then to proceed with the case accordingly. 

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF 

SRI LANKA

C.A(Revision) No. 323/2010 

J.M.Leelawathie Menike 

v. 

Wijemunige Gunatilake & others 

Present : Deepali Wijesundera J.,

                M. M. A. Gaffoor J.

Counsels : Ranil Samarasuriya with J. Jayasinghe for the subtd. 2nd Defendant Petitioner
                  Harsha Soza, P.C with Ranjith Perera for the Plaintiff Respondent
                  D. D. P. Dassanayake for the 4th Defendant Respondent 
                  Anurudhi Dharmaratne for the subtd 5th Defendant Respondent 

Decided on : 23.02.2016