Sir James Fitzjames Stephen’s Indian Evidence Act of 1872: On the Verge of Abolition in Singapore?

• Main Author: CHEN, Siyuan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Asian Studies; Evidence; Indigenous, Indian, and Aboriginal Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1277
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen’s Indian Evidence Act of 1872 was a revolutionary piece of work with respect to its conceptualisation of relevance and admissibility – essentially, it simplified the common law framework and statutorily defined what was relevant and admissible and obviated the need to ask...