Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsAppellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
| 11. The Supreme Court shall be the only superior court of record and shall have, subject to the provisions of this Law, jurisdiction for the correction of all errors in fact or in law committed by any subordinate court, and sole and exclusive cognizance by way of appeal, revision and restitutio-in-integrum of all actions, proceedings and matters of which such subordinate court may have taken cognizance, and such other jurisdiction as may be vested in the Supreme Court by law. In the exercise of its jurisdiction, the Supreme Court may, in accordance with law, affirm, reverse or vary any judgment or order, or give directions to such subordinate court, or order a new trial or a further hearing. It may, if necessary, receive and admit new evidence additional to, or supplementary of, the evidence already taken in such subordinate court: Provided that no judgment or order pronounced by any subordinate court shall on appeal or revision be reversed or varied on account of any error, defect or irregularity in the proceedings which shall not have prejudiced the substantial rights of either party or occasioned a failure of justice. |