Section 197 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 197 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Power to call or recall witnesses. It provides as follows:

The Court at any stage of any trial or other proceedings under this Law may call any person as a witness and examine such person or recall and re-examine any person already examined if his evidence appears to the Court to be essential to the just decision of the case.