Preliminary Year

Acts and Ordinances

1. Penal Code (with Amendments)

• Penal Code (Amendment) Act No. 12 of 2002
• Penal Code (Amendment) Act No. 16 of 2006

2. Constitution (with Amendments incorporated up to the 19th Amendment)

3. Industrial Disputes Act No.43 of 1950

4. Prevention of Frauds Ordinance No. 7 of 1840

5. Marriage Registration Ordinance No. 19 of 1907

• Marriage Registration (Amendment) Act No. 36 of 2006
• Marriage Registration (Amendment) Act No. 38 of 2006

6. Unfair Contract Terms Act No. 26 of 1997

7. Protection of the Rights of Elders Act No. 9 of 2000

• Protection of the Rights of Elders (Amendment) Act No. 5 of 2011

8. Maintenance Act No. 37 of 1999

9. Adoption of Children Ordinance No. 24 of 1941

10. Married Women's Property Ordinance No. 18 of 1923

11. Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act No. 13 of 1951

• Muslim Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act No. 40 of 2006

12. Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act No. 44 of 1952

• Kandyan Marriage and Divorce (Amendment) Act No. 39 of 2006

13. Kandyan Law Declaration and Amendment Ordinance No. 39 of 1938

14. Kandyan Succession Ordinance No. 23 of 1917

15. Matrimonial Rights and Inheritance Ordinance (Jaffna) No. 1 of 1911

16. Thesawalamai Pre-emption Ordinance No. 59 of 1947

17. Wills Ordinance No. 21 of 1844

• Wills (Amendment) Act No. 5 of 1993

18. Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and Remuneration) Act No. 19 of 1954

19. Wages Boards Ordinance No. 27 of 1941

20. Trade Unions Ordinance No. 14 of 1935

Case Law

Law of Persons

1. Natalie Abeysundere v. Christopher Abeysundere and Another (1998) 1 SLR 185

2. Alles v. Alles 46 NLR 445

3. Dayanganie v. Somawathie 58 NLR 337

4. Gaffoor v. Wilson and Another (1990) 1 SLR 142

5. Ghouse v. Ghouse (1988) 1 SLR 25

6. Gunaratna v. Punchihamy 15 NLR 501

7. Gunaratnam v. Register General (2002) 2 SLR 302

8. Jayasinghe v. Jayasinghe 55 NLR 410

9. Kanapathipillai v. Parpathy 57 NLR 553

10. Lalchand v. Saravanamuttu 36 NLR 273

11. Muthukuda v. Sumanawathie 65 NLR 205

12. Pathmanayaky v. Mahenthiran (2003) 3 SLR 241

13. Sivapakiam v. Sivapakiam 36 NLR 295

14. Udalagama v. Boange 61 NLR 25

Environmental Law

1. Eppawala Case (2000) 3 SLR 243

2. M.C.Mehta v. Kamal Nath and Others (1997) 1 SCC 388

3. Narmada Bachao Andolan v. Union of India AIR 2000 SC 3751

4. Jayawardena v. Akmeemana Pradeshiya Sabha and Others(1998) 1 SLR 316

5. Keangnam Enterprises Ltd. v. Abeysinghe and Others (1994) 2 SLR 271

Law of Obligations - I

1. Balfour v. Balfour (1919) 2 KB 571

2. Bell v. Lever Brothers Ltd (1931) UKHL 2

3. Entores Ltd v. Miles Far East Corp (1955) 2 QB 327

4. Felthouse v. Bindley (1862) EWHC CP J 35

5. Harvela Investments Ltd v. Royal Trust of Canada (CI) Ltd

6. The Household Fire and Carriage Accident Insurance Company (Limited) v. Grant (1878–79) LR 4 Ex D 216

7. Partridge v. Crittenden (1968) 1 WLR 1204

8. Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v. Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd (1953) EWCA Civ 6

9. Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v. Montefoire (1866) LR 1 Ex 109

Criminal Law

1. Attorney General v. Dewapriya Walgamage and Another (1990) 2 SLR 212

2. Dayaratne v. The Republic of Sri Lanka (1990) 2 SLR 226

3. Kachcheri Mudaliyar v. Mohomadu (1920) 21 NLR 369

4. King v. Assappu 50 NLR 324

5. King v. James Chandrasekera 44 NLR 97

6. King v. Velaiden 48 NLR 409

7. Nalliah v. Herat 54 NLR 473

8. Premlal v. Attorney General (2000) 2 SLR 403

9. The Queen v. Liyanage 64 NLR 313

10. Toussaint v. Dharmadasa 48 NLR 445

11. Wasalamuni Richard v. The State 76 NLR 534

Interpretation of Statutes and Legislative Drafting 

1. Dorothy Silva v. Inspector of Police 78 NLR 553 

Industrial Law

1. Carson Cumberbatch & Co. Ltd. v. Nandasena 77 NLR 73

2. Ceylon Mercantile Union v. Ceylon Fertilizer Corporation (1985) 1 SLR 401

3. S. B. Perera v. Standard Chartered Bank and Others (1995) 1 SLR 73

4. State Distilleries Corporation v. Rupasinghe (1994) 2 SLR 395

5. Upali Newspapers Ltd. v. Eksath Kamkaru Samithiya and Others (1999) 3 SLR 205