Section 289 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 289 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Injured person may refuse to accept compensation; but payment of compensation is bar. It provides as follows:

(1) The person to whom compensation is awarded may refuse to accept any such order for compensation but where any person receives compensation for an injury under the award of the Court as above mentioned, or where the offender, having been ordered to make compensation, suffers imprisonment for non-payment, the receipt of such compensation, or the undergoing of such imprisonment shall be a bar to any action for the same injury.

(2) Before making an order under subsection (1), the Court shall explain the full effect of that subsection to the person to whom compensation would be payable.