ENACTMENT NO. 2 OF 1991 EVIDENCE ENACTMENT OF THE SYARIAH COURT 1991
PART I - RELEVANCY CHAPTER 2 - QARINAH Opinion of Third Persons When Relevant
Section 35. Opinion as to handwriting when relevant.
When the Court has to form an opinion as to the person by whom any document was written or signed, the opinion of any person acquainted with the handwriting of the person by whom it is supposed to have been written or signed, that it was or was not written or signed by that person, is a relevant fact.
Explanation - A person is said to be acquainted with the handwritting of another person when he has seen that person write, or when he has received documents purporting to be written by that person in answer to document written by himself or under his authority and addressed to that person, or when in the ordinary course of business, documents purporting to be written by that person have been habitually submitted to him.
ILLUSTRATIONS
The question is whether a certain letter was written by A, to his wife.
Evidence is given by B, A's secretary who often read A's writing.
Evidence given by B is relevant although B did not see A wrote the letter.