Singapore legislation
Section 200
Section 200
Change of District Judge or Magistrate during trial
Whenever any District Judge or Magistrate after having heard and recorded the whole or any part of the evidence in a trial ceases to exercise jurisdiction in it and is succeeded by another District Judge or Magistrate who has and who exercises such jurisdiction, the District Judge or Magistrate so succeeding may act on the evidence so recorded by his predecessor or partly recorded by his predecessor and partly recorded by himself or he may resummon the witnesses and recommence the trial:Provided that —
the accused may, when the second District Judge or Magistrate commences his proceedings, demand that the witnesses or any of them shall be resummoned and reheard and the District Judge or Magistrate shall thereupon resummon and rehear any such witness unless the witness is dead or cannot be found or is incapable of giving evidence or is kept out of the way by the accused or his presence cannot be obtained without an amount of delay or expense which in the circumstances of the case the court considers unreasonable;
the High Court may set aside any conviction had on evidence not wholly recorded by the District Judge or Magistrate before whom the conviction was had, if that Court is of opinion that the accused has been materially prejudiced thereby and may order a new trial. [199