FROM ADVERSARIAL TO COLLABORATIVE TRUTH SEEKING The Past, Present and Future of Criminal Disclosure in Singapore Singapore's criminal disclosure regime has undergone significant changes over the past 15 years. Often, the focus has been on the greater obligations placed on the Prosecution to disclose material to the Defence. These changes have been viewed as “levelling the playing field” and shifting Singapore's criminal justice system from a model primarily based on crime control to one embracing aspects of due process. These analytical approaches view the developments in criminal disclosure as a “zero-sum” tug of war between rules which tend to favour either the Prosecution or the Defence. This article adopts a different lens – by surveying the evolution of criminal disclosure in Singapore, including past developments and the present position as reflected in the Criminal Procedure (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2024, it is argued that the shift which has taken place is more fundamental in nature, and is on

• Publication year: 2024
• Author: Senthilkumaran SABAPATHY1 BA, BCL (Oxford); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore); Second Director (Criminal Policy), Ministry of Law, Singapore. NG Jun Chong LLB (National University of Singapore); Deputy Public Prosecutor and Deputy Senior State Counsel, Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore.