Section 18 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 18 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Remedy of a person detained in custody. It provides as follows:

(1) Where a person taken into custody is not released on bail, a Magistrate having jurisdiction with respect to the offence may be notified by application on behalf of the arrested person.

(2) The Court shall order the production of the person detained and inquire into the circumstances constituting the grounds of the detention and where it deems fit admit the person detained to bail.

(3) An application for bail does not have to be in writing.

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