Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
10-2018
Abstract
Various portions of the Evidence Act and Criminal Procedure Code were amended in 2018 vide the Criminal Justice Reform Bill and Evidence (Amendment) Bill; this was a continuation of a series of gradual but important changes to the criminal justice system that had begun in 2010 when the old Criminal Procedure Code was replaced. This legislation comment outlines and briefly analyses some of the most substantive changes brought about by the 2018 amendments: the video-recording of interviews in criminal proceedings; the introduction of a psychiatrist panel to regulate the reception of evidence from expert psychiatric witnesses in criminal proceedings; and the use of deferred prosecution agreements for certain corporate offenders.
Keywords
Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Video Recorded Police Interviews, Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Psychiatric Evidence
Discipline
Criminal Procedure | Evidence
Research Areas
Public Interest Law, Community and Social Justice
Publication
Singapore Academy of Law Journal
First Page
1
Last Page
31
ISSN
0218-2009
Publisher
Singapore Academy of Law
Citation
CHEN, Siyuan and CHUA, Eunice.
2018 Changes to the Evidence Act and Criminal Procedure Code - The Criminal Justice Reform Bill and Evidence (Amendment) Bill. (2018). Singapore Academy of Law Journal. 1-31.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2796
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