Category: Nigeria


  • Section 8 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 8 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Power to break out of any house for purpose of liberation. It provides as follows: A Police Officer or other person authorised to make an arrest who has entered the…

  • Section 7 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 7 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested. It provides as follows: (1) If any person or Police Officer acting under a warrant of arrest or otherwise having…

  • Section 6 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 6 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Inventory of property of arrested person. It provides as follows: (1) A Police Officer or Law Enforcement Officer making an arrest or to whom anarrested person is handed over to…

  • Section 5 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 5 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Search of arrested person. It provides as follows: (1) Whenever a person is arrested by a Police Officer or a private person, the Police Officer making the arrest or to…

  • Section 4 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 4 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Arrest in lieu. It provides as follows: (1) A person shall not be arrested in lieu of any other person in a criminal matter. (2) The provisions of subsection (1)…

  • Section 3 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 3 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Notification of cause of arrest and rights of the arrested person(s). It provides as follows: (1) Except when the person arrested is in the actual course of the commission of…

  • Section 2 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 2 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about No unnecessary restraint. It provides as follows: A person arrested shall not be handcuffed, bound or be subjected to unnecessary restraint except by order of a Court or Justice of…

  • Section 1 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos Section 1 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Arrest how made. It provides as follows: A Police Officer or other person making an arrest shall touch or confine the body of the person to be arrested, unless there…

  • Section 4 of Sale of Goods Act 1893 Section 4 of the Sale of Goods Act is about Contract of sale for ten pounds and upwards. It provides as follows: (1) A contract for the sale of any goods of the value sale for ten of ten pounds or upwards shall not be enforceable by…

  • Section 3 Sale of Goods Act 1893 Section 3 of the Sale of Goods Act 1893 is about Contract of sale, how made. It provides as follows: Subject to the provisions of this Act and of any statute sale, how in that behalf, a contract of sale may be made in writing made. (either with…