Section 153:

153. Differently constituted Courts – Justice not seen to be done—The ratio decidendi of Sip Heng Wong Ng and Ng Ping Man v R (1985) is that those called upon to return a verdict in a criminal case have “the duty cast upon them to assess and determine the reliability and veracity of witnesses who give oral evidence, and it is upon this assessment that their verdict will ultimately depend”. Here 3 differently constituted Courts of 2 learned Magistrates each heard a portion of evidence of witnesses whose testimony was stiffly contested. Whether or not justice was done in the present case, it was certainly not seen to be done. Greedhur v R (1987).