Section 134 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 134 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Forfeiture on conviction. It provides as follows:

(1) Where a recognisance to keep the peace and to be of good behaviour or not to do or commit some act or thing, has been entered into by any person as defendant or as surety before the Court, a Court may, upon proof of the conviction of the defendant by such recognisance of any offence which is by law a breach of the condition of the same, by order, declare that such recognisance be forfeited and adjudge the persons bound thereby, whether as defendant or as sureties or any of such persons to pay the sums for which they are respectively bound.

(2) A certified copy of the judgment of the Court by which such person was convicted of such offence may be used as evidence in proceedings under this section and, if such certified copy is so used, the Court shall presume such offence was committed by such person until the contrary is proved.

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See also  Section 12 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

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