sierra leone court act, 1965 pdf
Sierra Leone Web; Human Rights Commission; Special Court of Sierra Leone; Law Reform Commission; Law Commons - Journal Articles; LawCite; Sierra Leone Parliament; Other African Law. If too long for this space continue overleaf). I hereby declare my self surety/we hereby jointly and severally declare ourselves sureties said, (name of accused) that he will be and appear before the said, .Court when called upon to answer the charge against him and will continue so to appear. Pursuant to the Employers and Employed Act, Chapter 212, modifies damages court may award in the case of an employment contract breach. c.any offence against sections 20, 21 and 22 of the Larceny Act, 1916. 144 Sudanese Nationality Act 1994, as amended by Act No. 668dd-668ee; Administration Act), as amended by the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, requires the Service to develop a CCP for each national wildlife refuge. B. and C. D., in H.S. 144. (1) When the accused appears to be of sound mind at the time of the preliminary investigation, the Court, notwithstanding that it is alleged that at the time when the act was committed in respect of which the accused person is charged he was, by reason of unsoundness of mind, incapable of knowing the nature of the act, or that it was wrong or contrary to law, shall proceed with the case, and if the accused ought to be committed for trial, the Court shall so commit him. (4)) After the statement of the offence particulars of such offence shall be set out in ordinary language, in which the use of technical terms shall not be necessary. Assented to in Her Majesty's name this 6th day of our Lord October, 1965. 230. 23. (b) It shall not be necessary to aver in any information or indictment that the certificate of the Attorney-General required by this section has been given; and the fact of the same having been given shall be presumed unless disputed by the defendant at the trial; and the production of a document purporting to be signed by the Attorney-General and containing such consent and certificate shall be sufficient evidence of the consent and certificate required by this. (1) When in the course of a trial of preliminary investigation (but not an inquest) the Court has reason to believe that the accused or the defendant is of unsound mind and consequently unable to make his defence, it shall order the accused to be confined in a mental hospital for a period of thirty days for observation. Section 47 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion immediately after the word "makes" in the third line thereof, of the following words "or cases to be made". g.Every person called as a witness in pursuance of this Act shall, unless otherwise ordered by Court, give his evidence from the witness box or other place from which the other witnesses give their evidence. (1) After the summing up, the jury shall consider their verdict, and for that purpose may retire. 0000009301 00000 n FAO organizational chart; Regional Office for Africa; Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific; Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia; Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean Now these are to command you to arrest the saidAnd to bring him before me. Sierra Leone Gazette Supplement: Acts, 1965-10-21, No. In theCourt at. To..(name and designation of person or persons who is or are to, Whereas..(name of accused) ofAddress stands charged with the, offence of(Statement of offence). 97. 214. In the Case - SLAJ vs The State of Sierra Leone, the journalists' association argued that Part V of the 1965 Public Order Act contravenes Section 25(1) of Act No 6 of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone. (1) The constable or an officer of the Court to whom a summons is delivered for service shall serve the same upon the person to whom it is directed by delivering it to him personally or by leaving it with some other person for him at his last or usual place of residence. (1) In this Part the expression "representative" in relation to a corporation means a person duly appointed by the corporation to represent it for the purpose of doing any act or thing by which the representative of a corporation is by this Part authorised to do, but a person so appointed shall not by virtue only of being so appointed, be qualified to act on behalf of the corporation before any Court for any other purpose. PART V - SPECIAL TRIALS TRIAL OF CORPORATIONS. (4)The search warrant shall be executed by the constable or other person who shall have charge thereof; but he may be accompanied by any other persons necessary to assist him. 0000006381 00000 n Whenever it shall be necessary to form a panel of jurors to serve at any session, the Sheriff in conjunction with an officer nominated by the Judge, shall cause the names of the jurors in the list, resident at and near the district, to be written on separate cards or pieces of paper of equal size and placed in ballot boxes to be kept for that purpose, and shall draw from said boxes such number of names, as the Court may direct, of special jurors and common jurors to form a panel, and the cards or slips so drawn shall thereupon be locked up in separate boxes until the whole of the names of the jurors, except those who may have served at the last preceding session, shall be returned to the ballot boxes, and, when required the names shall be re-drawn in manner aforesaid. IN THE SUPREME COURT OF SIERRA LEONE (ORIGINAL JURISDICTION) . published and caused or procured to be sold, uttered , and published and obscene libel the particulars of which are deposited with this indictment. (1) Order for payment of money. 1. 182. General authority of Courts to bring accused persons before them. During remand the Court may, nevertheless, order the accused to be brought before it. 94. 101. (1) In the case of a conviction involving sentence of death the sentence shall not in any case be executed until a. after the expiration of the time within which a notice of appeal or of an application for leave to appeal may. 64 CITIZENSHIP LAW IN AFRICA to his child; and some of those countries that do not discriminate between 122. 112. 184. Privilege of persons committed for trial. (1) Any Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace who is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for believing that there is in any building, vessel, vehicle, receptacle or place -. (2)A count of an information or indictment shall commence with a statement of the offence charged, called the statement of offence. 71. and obscene libel the particulars of which ate deposited with this indictment. 7. 245. The signature and attestation of the Magistrate holding the preliminary examination shall be sufficient. A. person at the time of making such declaration believed himself in danger of imminent death and entertained at the time of making it no hopes of recovery. (2) The powers conferred upon the Director of Public Prosecutions by paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1) shall be vested in him to the exclusion of any other person or authority: Provided that, where any other person or authority has instituted criminal proceedings nothing in this paragraph shall prevent the withdrawal of those proceedings by or at the instance of that person or authority at any stage before the person against whom the proceedings have been instituted has been charged before the Court. PRESERVATION OF TESTIMONY IN CERTAIN CASE. 42. 176. b. Information to be given to Magistrate, when required. 228. In the event of any person liable and suitable to serve as a juror being found at any district after the lists are settled for the year, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to place the name of such person on the list, either as a special or common juror, as the case may be, and such person shall be liable to serve as such juror till fresh lists are brought into force, and whenever any juror on the list may have become disqualified, his name shall be expunged. (3)The statement of offence shall described the offence shortly in ordinary language, avoiding as far as possible the use of technical terms, and without necessarily stating all the essential elements of the offence, and if the offence charged is one created by enactment shall contain a reference to the section of the enactment creating the offence. (2) The constable or other person who arrests any person on a charge of an offence against the person of another may cause the person arrested by him to be examined by a medical practitioner: Provided that any person so examined shall have the right to require that such examination shall be made in the presence of his own medical practitioner or of some other person selected by him. Power to search for strangers in Diamond Protection Areas. 154. WHEREAS by a judgment of the Supreme Court bearing date theday of 19..(name of prisoner) was convicted of murder and was thereupon by the said Court sentenced to suffer, NOW, THEREFORE, these are to command you privately to carry the said sentence into execution by causing the, said..to suffer death by being hanged by the neck until he is dead, atm on.the.day, of.19.., and within the precincts of the prison at.and thereafter to cause the, dead body of the said.to be buried in the.(cemetery), at..(place and for so doing these shall be your sufficient authority: and there upon without delay. 188. 80. 152. 68. 223. Whenever it appears to any Court that any person dangerously ill or hurt, and not likely to recover, is able and willing to give material information relating to any offence, and it shall not be practicable to take the depositions of the person so ill or hurt . (1) At the close of the evidence in support of the charge if it appears to the Court that the case is made out against the accused or the defendant sufficiently to require him to make a defence the Court shall ask him if he wishes to say anything in answer to the charge, or has any witnesses to examine or other evidence to adduce in his defence, and the Court shall then hear the accused or the defendant and his witnesses and other evidence, if any. The Court shall inform every person condemned to death of the period within which, if he desires to appeal, his notice of appeal or of his application for leave to appeal must be given. (2) When a person is charged with any felony, other than murder or treason, the Court may, if it thinks fit, admit him to bail. ARREST GENERALLY 4. (2)Such warrant of commitment shall name the day, time and place at which the accused is to appear before the Supreme Court in answer to the indictment preferred against him but the committal for trial shall not be invalidated by reason only of a failure to comply with this subsection. Offences by public officers abroad and offences on aircraft. It shall not be necessary in any case to keep the jury together during any adjournment previous to the close of the Judge's summing up, but it shall be lawful for the Court, if it should appear to it to be advisable in the interest of justice on any trial to require the jury to be kept together during any adjournment. B., on heday of..at.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, being clerk or servant to. 100. [1st October, 1965.] (1) If the jury are not unanimous, the Judge may require them to retire for further consideration. It does not, though, regulate the use of force by the Sierra Leone Police Force beyond the provision in Section 16(2) cited above. (3)The length of any term of imprisonment imposed by the sentence of any Court shall be treated as reduced by any period during which the offender was in custody before sentence by reason only of having been committed for trial, or remanded, after arraignment. (1) At any time during the hearing of the change the Court may, if it thinks fit, adjourn the hearing. 232. 242. No. While Spanish is the first official language of Puerto Rico, English is the second official language. purporting to be the will of C. D., knowing the same to be forged and with intent to defraud. Before or immediately upon the conclusion of this period the Chief Medical Officer shall cause a report on the condition of the accused or the defendant signed by two registered medical practitioners (which reports may, if such be the case, indicate that the practitioners who signed the same hold different opinions as to the accused's mental state) to be sent to the Court, which shall forthwith, after considering the report and taking such further evidence as it shall consider necessary, make a finding upon the state of mind of the accused. A. Calling of husband and wife in certain cases. 174. Return of property found on person arrested, and release of property returned in Courts. 0000073714 00000 n 35. Whenever the jury is discharged, the accused person shall be detained in custody or released on bail, as the case may be, and shall be tried by another jury. 117. the offence may enquired into and tried in any one of such Districts. 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