NOTICE OF APPEAL NOT SIGNED BY THE REGISTERED ATTORNEY AT LAW.. IS IT FATAL.

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NOTICE OF APPEAL NOT SIGNED BY THE REGISTERED ATTORNEY AT LAW.. IS IT FATAL.


 The petition of appeal had not been signed by the registered attorney at law but suscribed to by the counsel who conducted case of the appellant in the original court instead. Upon preliminary objection being taken against the petition of appeal and conceded by the appellant that the petition had not been subscribed to by the registered  AAL, it was held that the the petition did not constitute a valid appeal.                                                                                      


RANJITH SILVA, J.                           
 A preliminary objection was taken by Mr. Vijithsingh  that the notice  of appeal was signed not by the registered Attorney but by a person called R.W. Seneviratne who was not  the registered Attorney  on record.  We have perused  the entire record and we find that there was never an application for a revocation of the proxy given to Mr. Nizar and there is no journal entry or proceedings authorizing the revocation and appointing a new Counsel as registered Attorney. We have not found a single proxy appointing Mr. A.W. Seneviratne or  Mr. Priyantha Seneviratne as their Counsel.  The only proxy that is there is one given to Mr. Nizar. Therefore the notice of appeal is defective, illegal and  is fatal according to the cursus curiae  laid down by  the Superior Courts.  Therefore we are constrained to dismiss this appeal, in limine.

                                                                                                                                Sgd.                                                       
                                                                                                JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEAL
A. W. A. SALAM, J.
                                I agree.

                                                                                                                                Sgd.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEAL
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  Kadija Umm and others                                                                                                                             
    Plaintiff-Appellants 
              Vs.
 Abdul Kader alias Baba
  Defendant-Respondent
                                                                                

                                                                                                          
CA .604/1996(F)                                                
D.C. Galle No.11955/L


BEFORE                                :             W. L. R. SILVA, J. &
A.      W. A. SALAM, J.
COUNSEL                                          Nizam Kariapper  with M.I.M.Iynullah  for the                                                                                          
                                                           plaintiff-appellant.
                                                           S. N. Vijithsingh for the defendant-respondent
ARGUED AND   
DECIDED ON       :                               07th December, 2009


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