The Indian Evidence Act and recent formulations of the exclusionary discretion in Singapore: Not quite different rivers into the same sea

• Main Authors: CHEN, Siyuan, CHUA, Eunice
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Indian Evidence Act; Asian Studies; Comparative and Foreign Law; Evidence
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2753
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Sir James Fitzjames Stephen’s Indian Evidence Act of 1872 continues to govern the law of evidence in almost a dozen common law jurisdictions today. But the fundamental features of the IEA would undoubtedly be considered anomalous when viewed against modern notions of relevance and admissibility, for...