trying to study
Came across a gem while reading crim law. :)
Whether or not a person had ‘reason to believe’ certain property was stolen property … is a test to be applied by the court, but from the perspective of the accused person. It must relate to the standards of belief of a reasonable man and not to those of any particular accused person, since the legislature could hardly have intended that, ceteris paribus, a conviction might depend on whether the accused reasons like a cretin or a genius.
From Koh Hak Boon v PP [1993] 3 SLR 427. By our very own ex-Chief Justice.
I wonder if the people around him use language like that, or whether he picked it up from long hours studying old English cases in solitude in his grand office.
- Alaris -
Whether or not a person had ‘reason to believe’ certain property was stolen property … is a test to be applied by the court, but from the perspective of the accused person. It must relate to the standards of belief of a reasonable man and not to those of any particular accused person, since the legislature could hardly have intended that, ceteris paribus, a conviction might depend on whether the accused reasons like a cretin or a genius.
From Koh Hak Boon v PP [1993] 3 SLR 427. By our very own ex-Chief Justice.
I wonder if the people around him use language like that, or whether he picked it up from long hours studying old English cases in solitude in his grand office.
- Alaris -
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