A High Court judge has rejected a bid by former transport minister S. Iswaran to compel the prosecution to provide conditioned statements of all 56 witnesses it has lined up for his upcoming trial on 35 charges. A conditioned statement is a mode of giving evidence in a...
A High Court judge has rejected a bid by former transport minister S. Iswaran to compel the prosecution to provide conditioned statements of all 56 witnesses it has lined up for his upcoming trial on 35 charges.
The prosecution has said that since it does not intend to rely on conditioned statements for Iswaran’s trial, none were recorded from the witnesses, and thus, none were provided to the defence. On July 19, in dismissing Iswaran’s application, Justice Vincent Hoong found that the law requires the prosecution to provide conditioned statements of witnesses only when it intends to admit such statements at the trial.
Justice Hoong noted that the purpose of the disclosure in criminal proceedings is to provide a regime for early and reciprocal disclosure of the parties’ respective cases, with the prosecution first putting its cards on the table, followed by the defence.
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