Section 315 Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) Lagos

Section 315 Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State, as amended in 2021, is about Date from which sentence commences. It provides as follows:

A sentence of imprisonment takes effect from and includes the whole of the day of the date on which it was pronounced provided that in reckoning the length of imprisonment, the Court shall direct that any period of detention prior to conviction shall be taken into consideration.