Category: Nigeria


  • Section 341 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 341 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Conditional release of offenders. It provides as follows: (1) Where any person is charged before a Court for an offence triable summarily and the Court finds that the charge is…

  • Section 340 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 340 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Procedure for trying juvenile offenders. It provides as follows: Where a child or young person is brought before the High Court or Magistrates’ Court charged with an offence, the charge…

  • Section 339 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 339 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Provisions as to sentence of deportation. It provides as follows: (1) If a person ordered to be deported is sentenced to any term of imprisonment, such sentence of imprisonment shall…

  • Section 338 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 338 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Minister of Internal Affairs may withhold order and remit case to Court. It provides as follows: If the Minister of Internal Affairs decides that no order of deportation shall be…

  • Section 337 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 337 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Order of deportation. It provides as follows: If the Minister of Internal Affairs decides that in the interest of peace, order, and good governance, an order of deportation should be…

  • Section 336 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 336 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Detention of person concerned. It provides as follows: Where a recommendation for deportation has been made in respect of a person to whom section 331, 332 or 333 relate, such…

  • Section 335 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 335 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Procedure on recommendation of deportation under section 331, 332 or 333. It provides as follows: Where the Court decides to recommend to the Minister of Internal Affairs the deportation of…

  • Section 334 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 334 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Procedure prior to court recommending deportation under section 332 or 333. It provides as follows: (1) Where a person required to give security under section 332 default in so doing…

  • Section 333 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 333 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Deportation of a person threatening peace and order. It provides as follows: Where it is shown by evidence on oath to the satisfaction of a Court that any person in…

  • Section 332 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 332 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Deportation in default of security for peace. It provides as follows: Where, upon any affidavit, it appears to a Court that there is reason to believe that any person in…