EVIDENCE: Adverse inference
4 cases · April 2025 to June 2026
Case Volume by Year
1 25
3 26
2025–2026
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Evidence Act 1950 Section 114(g) — Prosecution’s failure to call or offer material witnesses (identified as the actual owners/traffickers) — Suppression of CCTV footage covering the critical window of arrest and drug discovery — Failure to produce the mandatory POL-31 Form — Failure to investigate a formal Defence Report naming other suspects. 2 Failure to call material witness — Whether failure by prosecution to call witnesses present during raid and body search justified drawing of adverse inference under s. 114(g) Evidence Act 1950 — Whether uncorroborated evidence of single police witness on central issue sufficient where corroborating witnesses available but not called — Whether prosecution's failure to call landlord's employee with direct knowledge of who occupied premises a material omission 1 Whether adverse inference should be drawn under section 114(g) of Evidence Act 1950 for failure of defendant to testify — Whether medical certificate providing legitimate reason for non-attendance — Whether testimony would materially alter case outcome 1
Evidence Act 1950 Section 114(g) — Prosecution’s failure to call or offer material witnesses (identified as the actual owners/traffickers) — Suppression of CCTV footage covering the critical window of arrest and drug discovery — Failure to produce the mandatory POL-31 Form — Failure to investigate a formal Defence Report naming other suspects. 2 cases
Failure to call material witness — Whether failure by prosecution to call witnesses present during raid and body search justified drawing of adverse inference under s. 114(g) Evidence Act 1950 — Whether uncorroborated evidence of single police witness on central issue sufficient where corroborating witnesses available but not called — Whether prosecution's failure to call landlord's employee with direct knowledge of who occupied premises a material omission 1 case
Whether adverse inference should be drawn under section 114(g) of Evidence Act 1950 for failure of defendant to testify — Whether medical certificate providing legitimate reason for non-attendance — Whether testimony would materially alter case outcome 1 case
Key Statutes
Evidence Act 1950
cited in 2 cases Stamp Act 1949 (Cap 378)
cited in 1 case Contracts Act 1950 (Cap 136)
cited in 1 case Dangerous Drugs Act 1952
cited in 1 case Poisons Act 1952
cited in 1 case Penal Code (Cap 574)
cited in 1 case Criminal Procedure Code (Cap 593)
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
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Cases
ja-45a-36-03-2022
PENDAKWA RAYA Pendakwa Raya TERTUDUH 1. ) YUVANRAJ A/L ARUMUGAM 2. ) HARISHWARAN A/L KHISO KUMAR
18 June 2026
MYHC
ja-45a-80-04-2022
PENDAKWA RAYA Pendakwa Raya TERTUDUH HARISHWARAN A/L KHISO KUMAR
18 June 2026
MYHC
ja-45a-153-12-2022
PENDAKWA RAYA Pendakwa Raya TERTUDUH 1. ) SADAM HUSAIN BIN USTAZ AHMAD NABI 2. ) MOHD AMIRUL ASRAF BIN ABU BAKAR 3. ) WALIZA BIN SADAT GUL
31 March 2026
MYHC
wa-22ncc-283-06-2022
LUA THIANG POH v 1. ) KABIR SINGH A/L JAGIR SINGH 2. ) JASMINDER KAUR A/P JASBIR SINGH 3. ) MANJEET SINGH A/L DARSHAN SINGH 4. ) KAWALJEET KAUR A/P DARSHAN SINGH 5. ) YOKIN RESOURCES SDN. BHD.
20 April 2025
MYHC