Similar fact evidence in Malaysia: a review of Section 11(b) of the Evidence Act 1950

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Mageswary Siva Subramaniam
Keyword(s):  
Similar Fact

scholarly journals IV.—On the Occurrence of Boring Mollusca in the Oolitic Rocks

1875 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Building Stone ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Farm Land ◽  
Similar Fact ◽  
Agricultural College

The occurrence of perforations due to Lithophagous mollusca has been frequently observed in the Oolitic rocks, viz. in the Inferior and Great Oolite, Cornbrash, Coral-rag, and Portland beds. During a recent visit, with some of the students of the Agricultural College, Cirencester, to a quarry near there, further evidence of a similar fact was obtained. The quarry is situated near the canal on the farm land of Mr. Sargeant, and has been long worked for road stone and building stone, and, according to the Geological Survey, belongs to the Forest Marble division of the Great Oolite series, and exhibits the structure known as “false-bedding or oblique lamination,” and occasionally the flagstones in this and other neighbouring quarries show ripple-marks and tracks of marine animals.

Sexual Abuse and the Similar Fact Evidence Rule

1992 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
Roderick Munday
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Similar Fact

Police Violence as Organizational Crime

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sylvia Rich
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Code ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Organizational Crime ◽  
Similar Fact

Abstract This paper argues that patterns of pervasive police violence can and should be treated as organizational crime in Canada. It uses the documented events of police violence in Val d’Or, Quebec, that emerged in 2015 to show how a similar fact pattern might fit all of the elements of organizational crime as defined in the Criminal Code. The article also suggests that this is an example where legal imagination is important, in order to shift our collective understanding of what organizational crime is and where it occurs.

17. Evidence of character: evidence of character in civil cases

2020 ◽  
pp. 533-537
Author(s):  
Adrian Keane ◽  
Paul McKeown
Keyword(s):  
Similar Fact ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Character Evidence ◽  
Civil Cases

This chapter discusses the admissibility of evidence of character. A number of factors govern the admissibility of character evidence, including whether the proceedings are civil or criminal and whether the evidence relates to the character of a party or non-party. It is also necessary to consider the nature of the character evidence in question. It may relate to either good or bad character and, in either event, may constitute evidence of a person’s actual disposition, that is his propensity to act, think, or feel in a given way; or evidence of his reputation, that is his reputed disposition or propensity to act, think, or feel in a given way. Thus, the character of a person may be proved by evidence of general disposition, by evidence of specific examples of his conduct on other occasions (including, in the case of bad conduct, evidence of his previous convictions), or by evidence of his reputation among those to whom he is known. The chapter considers civil cases in which bad character designated ‘similar fact evidence’ has been admitted

Myths, Relationships and Coincidences: The New Problems of Sexual History

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Redmayne
Keyword(s):  
Third Parties ◽  
Sexual History ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Similar Fact ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Rape Trials ◽  
The Law ◽  
Made In

This article reviews recent developments in the law governing the admissibility of sexual history evidence in England and Wales. After the decision of the House of Lords in R v A (No. 2), the law reflects a consensus that the complainant's sexual history with third parties is generally irrelevant to the issue of consent in rape trials. In the first part of this article, the justifications for this conclusion are questioned; it is suggested that the relevance of sexual history is a more complex issue than it is usually acknowledged to be. The second part of the article uses points made in the first to question the way in which concepts drawn from the law on similar fact evidence have been used as the admissibility framework for sexual history. Aspects of the decision in R v A are examined in detail.

scholarly journals The palindromic width of a free product of groups

2006 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery Bardakov ◽  
Vladimir Tolstykh
Keyword(s):  
Free Product ◽  
Free Groups ◽  
Uniform Bound ◽  
Free Products ◽  
Cyclic Groups ◽  
Similar Fact ◽  
Products Of Groups ◽  
Free Product Of Groups ◽  
Verbal Subgroups ◽  
Product Of Groups

AbstractPalindromes are those reduced words of free products of groups that coincide with their reverse words. We prove that a free product of groups G has infinite palindromic width, provided that G is not the free product of two cyclic groups of order two (Theorem 2.4). This means that there is no uniform bound k such that every element of G is a product of at most k palindromes. Earlier, the similar fact was established for non-abelian free groups. The proof of Theorem 2.4 makes use of the ideas by Rhemtulla developed for the study of the widths of verbal subgroups of free products.

Law Reports, Transcripts, and the Fabric of the Criminal Law—A Speculation

2004 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-243
Author(s):  
Roderick Munday
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Legal Problem ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Similar Fact ◽  
Ready Access ◽  
Law Reports

Thanks to the advent of searchable, computerised archives of unreported (but fully referenced) appellate decisions, anyone researching a legal problem today has ready access to a vast mass of previously concealed authorities. This article speculates on one of the troubling possibilities this cornucopia brings with it: namely, that if one surveys the full range of materials now accessible, one may actually need to reconfigure what were previously assumed to be settled bodies of knowledge. Using the soon-to-be-defunct similar fact evidence principles as an illustration, this article is not so much intended offer a proof of the thesis, but to throw out a teasing question that, in truth, goes to the root of English legal method.

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