The presumption of innocence is widely celebrated. In Singapore, it has been hailed_x000D_ by V. K. Rajah J.A. as "the cornerstone of the criminal justice system and the bedrock of the law of evidence" (see XP v. PP [2008] 4 S.L.R.(R.) 686 (H.C.) at para. 90). But what exactly is the presumption of innocence?

The origins of this book lie in the Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations,_x000D_ hosted for the first time by the National University of Singapore in July 2008. Out of the sixty-eight papers presented at the conference, nineteen were ultimately assembled and presented in this collection of essays about The Goals of Private Law.