Cheng Swee Tiang v PP
Jurisdiction | Malaysia |
Year | 1964 |
Court | High Court (Malaysia) |
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15 cases
- PP v Seridaran
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Wong Keng Leong Rayney v Law Society of Singapore
...Chan Hiang Leng Colin v Minister for Information and the Arts [1996] 1 SLR (R) 294; [1996] 1 SLR 609 (folld) Cheng Swee Tiang v PP [1964] MLJ 291 (folld) Haw Tua Tau v PP [1981-1982] SLR (R) 133; [1980-1981] SLR 73 (refd) How Poh Sun v PP [1991] 2 SLR (R) 270; [1991] SLR 220 (folld) IRC v N......
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Law Society of Singapore v Tan Guat Neo Phyllis
...of the offence should be excluded (“the Summit exception”). Counsel for the respondent argued, relying on Cheng Swee Tiang v PP [1964] MLJ 291 (“Cheng Swee Tiang”) as well as the Summit exception, that the evidence obtained by Jenny in the present case should be excluded as it operated unfa......
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Muhammad bin Kadar and another v Public Prosecutor
...value. This being the overarching principle of the EA, we are of the view that in so far as the High Court in Cheng Swee Tiang [v PP [1964] MLJ 291] recognised a discretion to exclude relevant evidence on the ground of unfairness to the accused, such a proposition is not entirely consonant ......
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8 books & journal articles
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THE COURT'S DISCRETION TO EXCLUDE EVIDENCE IN CIVIL CASES AND EMERGING IMPLICATIONS IN THE CRIMINAL SPHERE
...(LexisNexis, 5th Ed, 2015) at paras 6.056–6.059. 86Ie, since the judgment of the High Court in Cheng Swee Tiang v Public Prosecutor[1964] MLJ 291 (see para 4 above). 87ANB v ANC[2015] 5 SLR 522 at [27]–[31]. 88ANB v ANC[2015] 5 SLR 522 at [27]–[31]. 89 As is evident from the heading above p......
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THE CASE FOR DEPARTING FROM THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE AGAINST PRIOR NEGOTIATIONS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF CONTRACTS IN SINGAPORE
...t p 1573. 110Law Society of Singapore v Tan Guat Neo Phyllis[2008] 2 SLR(R) 239 at [126]. 111 See Cheng Swee Tiang v Public Prosecutor[1964] MLJ 291; Ajmer Singh v Public Prosecutor[1985–1986] SLR(R) 1030; How Poh Sun v Public Prosecutor[1991] 2 SLR(R) 270; and SM Summit Holdings Ltd v Publ......
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ADMISSIBILITY AND THE DISCRETION TO EXCLUDE EVIDENCE
...at [126]). It referred to Chan Chi Pun v Public Prosecutor[1994] 1 SLR(R) 654, which approved Cheng Swee Tiang v Public Prosecutor[1964] MLJ 291 (Phyllis at [103]). For a fuller account of the approach in Phyllis to former authorities, see Jeffrey Pinsler, Evidence and the Litigation Proces......
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APPROACHES TO THE EVIDENCE ACT: THE JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENT OF A CODE
...Proof in Criminal Justice”(1992) 4 SAcLJ 267; Michael Hor, “The Presumption of Innocence”[1995] SJLS 365. 29 See main text at note 21. 30 [1964] MLJ 291. 31 This was a magistrate’s appeal first heard by Tan Ah Tah J. On the application of the appellant, the case was ordered to be heard befo......
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