Section 147 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 147 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Form of charge. It provides as follows:

(1) Every charge shall contain the following—
(a) the offence with which a defendant is charged;

(b) if the written law creating the offence gives it any specific name the offence may be described in the charge by that name only;

(c) if the written law which creates the offence does not give it any specific name so much of the definition of the offence must be stated as to give the defendant notice of the particulars of the offence with which he is charged; and

(d) the written law and the section of the written Law against which the offence is said to have been committed.

(2) The fact that a charge is made is equivalent to a statement that every legal condition required by Law to constitute the offence charged was fulfilled in the particular case.

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