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Iswaran, 62, sought permission to bring two questions of law before the Court of Appeal, specifically whether the prosecution must include all facts and evidence supporting the charges in the form of witness statements, and whether the court can order the prosecution to do so, according to a report published inThis latest bid followed two previous unsuccessful attempts to obtain these statements, both of which were dismissed by an assistant registrar and a High Court judge.
The defence team, led by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh from Davinder Singh Chambers, argued that under Section 214 of the Criminal Procedure Code , the prosecution is required to provide all forms of witness statements, including draft statements, to the defence. The appeal hearing on Tuesday took place in a packed courtroom before Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon and Justices Woo Bih Li and Steven Chong.
He stated that Singh’s argument seemed to be asking the court to “craft a discovery regime” that Parliament had not intended when they established the current criminal disclosure process.
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