The Weekly Law Reports
[1964] 3 WLR 632
[PRIVY COUNCIL.]
THE QUEEN APPELLANT; AND MURUGAN RAMASAMY RESPONDENT.
ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEAL, CEYLON
1964 July 21.
LORD DILHORNE L.C., VISCOUNT RADCLIFFE, LORD MORRIS OF BORTH-Y-GEST, LORD HODSON and LORD PEARCE.
Ceylon
— Criminal law
— Evidence
— Statements made in course of police investigation
— Inadmissibility applicable to evidence of both oral and written statements and to both accused and witnesses
— Statutory provision admitting evidence of fact discovered as result of statement when in police custody
— Statutory provision that statements to police inadmissible
— Reconciliation
— Generalia specialibus non derogant
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Evidence Ordinance (Legislative Enactments of Ceylon, 1938 Rev., c. 11), s. 27 (1)
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Code of Criminal Procedure (Legislative Enactments of Ceylon, 1938 Rev., c. 16), s. 122 (3).
Crime
— Evidence
— Confession
— Statement leading to discovery of relevant fact
— Finding of gun
— Principle of admissibility.
Statute
— Construction
— Generalia specialibus non derogant
— Provision that statements to police inadmissible in evidence
— Provision that statement leading to discovery of fact admissible.