Section 143 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 143 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Description of persons in criminal process. It provides as follows:

(1) Where in any summons, warrant of any description, Charge Sheet, information or any document whatsoever issued by a Court of Law in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, it is necessary to refer to any person, the description or designation of that person shall be such as is reasonably sufficient to
identify him.

(2) It shall not be necessary to state the person’s correct name, or his abode, style, degree, or occupation, so far as the person has been sufficiently described to identify him.

(3) Where it is impracticable to give the person’s correct and exact description or designation because the name or such description or designation of the person is not known or for any other reason, such description or designation shall be given as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances, such person may be described as ‘‘person unknown’’.

Provided that no person who is accused of an offence shall be described as ‘‘a person unknown’’ except in the case of a verdict found upon a coroner’s inquisition.

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