Tugasan 3

Seksyen 7
1. Apakah fakta-fakta yang relevan di bawah seksyen 7 Akta Keterangan 1950?
This section provides for three categories of classes of facts admissible as relevant facts:
a. Facts which are the occasion, cause or effect, immediate or otherwise, of relevant facts
or facts in issue.
b. Facts which constitute the state of things under which they happened.
c. Facts which afforded an opportunity of their occurrence or transaction.

2. Apakah contoh fakta yang menunjukkan hal kejadian (occasion) di bawah seksyen 7 Akta
Keterangan 1950?
IIlustration (b) of section 7 Evidence Act 1950 raised the question whether A murdered B.
The marks on the ground produced by a struggle at or near the place where the murder was
committed are relevant facts in respect to the occasion occurred.
In the case of Public Prosecutor v Toh Kee Huat [1965] the court held that the effect of the
finger prints left at the scene was considered to be a relevant facts under this case.

3. Apakah contoh fakta yang menunjukkan sebab (cause) di bawah seksyen 7 Akta
Keterangan 1950?
IIustrtion (b) of section 7 Evidence Act again showed that facts which are cause of relevant
facts or facts in issue are relevant facts. In the case of Jainnand v R AIR (1949), Bhargava
J held relevant the fact that the accused had taken money and ornaments from the deceased
and the deceased on the day of murder had gone to the accused to demand them are relevant
showing occasion, cause or effect of the fact in issue.

4. Apakah contoh fakta yang menunjukkan kesan (effect) di bawah seksyen 7 Akta
Keterangan 1950?
Illustration (b) of section 7 Evidence Act again showed that facts which are effect of
relevant facts or facts in issue are relevant facts. In the case of R v Richardson, the fact that
there was evidence regarding to the footsteps of a person who had been running hastily
from the place of the incident had showed the effect subsequent to the event.

5. Apakah contoh fakta yang menunjukkan keadaan benda (state of things) di bawah
seksyen 7 Akta Keterangan 1950?
Illustration (a) of section 7 Evidence Act 1950 raised the question whether A robbed B.
The facts that shortly before the robbery B went to a fair with money in his possession and
that he showed or mentioned the fact that he had it to third persons are relevant.

6. Apakah contoh fakta yang menunjukkan peluang (opportunity) di bawah seksyen 7 Akta
Keterangan 1950?
Illustration (c) of section 7 Evidence Act 1950 raised the question whether A poisoned B.
The state of Bs health before the symptoms ascribed to poison and habits of B known to
A, which afforded the opportunity for the admission of poisons, are relevant facts. In the
case of R v Donellan, the deceased was suffering from an ailment and the accused knew
about this and also the time at which the mother of the deceased used to serve the medicine,
This enabled him to replace the medicine with a bottle of poison. The accuseds knowledge
about the deceaseds habit gave him the opportunity to carry out the poisoning.