Iswaran turns to High Court to get prosecution to hand over statements of all its witnesses

Iswaran back at court, tries to compel prosecution to hand over statements of all 56 witnesses

Former transport minister S. Iswaran, who faces 35 charges, on July 5 tried to compel the prosecution to provide conditioned statements for all 56 prosecution witnesses. A conditioned statement is a mode of giving evidence by written statement, rather than by oral testimony. Iswaran, whose charges involve more than $400,000 worth of items, arrived at the High Court with his...

Iswaran seeks to get prosecution to hand over statements of all of its 56 witnesses

His wife is one of the witnesses and seven statements were recorded from her by CPIB. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Iswaran turns to High Court to get prosecution to hand over statements of all its witnesses

Iswaran's lawyers, led by Senior Counsel Davinder Singh, had lost their first bid to compel the prosecution to provide all witness statements, but tried again in a criminal revision in the High Court.

Iswaran’s lawyers, prosecution clash over request for written statements from trial witnesses