Date of assent: 01 March 2065. 9. DATED this..day of. 50. a.presumed or actual partiality or prejudice in the juror as standing in the relation of husband, master or servant, landlord or tenant to the person accused or to the person supposed to have been injured or affected by the act complained of, or to the person on whose complaint the prosecution was instituted; being in the employment of either of such person; being plaintiff or defendant against either of such persons; in any civil suit, or having complained against or having been accused by either of such persons in any criminal prosecution, or entertaining prejudiced views on the case to be tried; b.some personal cause as infancy, old age, deafness, blindness, infirmity or ill-health; c.that the juror has been convicted of perjury or other offence, disqualifying him from acting as a juror; d. that the juror does not understand the English language, but this shall not be a ground of disqualification, if the juror understands the usual language of the place where trial is held, unless the Court shall think fit so to order. DATED this.day of.19 (This warrant may been endorsed as follows), If the said.shall enter into a recognisance himself in the sum of. 1. 243. 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. If he refuses, the Court shall add a note of his refusal and the statement may be used as if he had signed or attested it. It does not, though, regulate the use of force by the Sierra Leone Police Force beyond the provision in Section 16(2) cited above. 246. Written offers "without prejudicen save . 145. If any person stands mute or refuses, or by reason of infirmity is unable to answer directly to the indictment the Court shall, unless it has reason to believe that such person is of unsound mind and consequently incapable of making his defence, order the Registrar to enter a plea of not guilty on behalf of such person, and the plea so entered shall have the same force and effect as if such person had actually pleaded the same; but if the Court has reason to believe as aforesaid, it shall proceed in the manner prescribed in section 71. Upon taking these steps the Court shall proceed to hear and finally determine the matter in accordance with the provisions of Part II relating to summary trials. Payment out of small intestate estates 12. Periodical report of criminal lunatics. of: AND WHEREAS it has been reported to me that there are no sufficient goods and chattels of the, said..to satisfy the said sum and the expenses of such. Upon the receipt of the search warrant and of all the things seized thereunder the Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace may make an order as to the immediate custody of the said things and, at any time thereafter, may make such an order as to their disposal as may seem proper. A warrant may be executed by the arrest of the accused at any place in Sierra Leone. B., on the..day of.at.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, fraudulently converted, to his own use..Province Or benefit certain property, that is to say, Le 100 entrusted to him by E.S. The repeal of the law has been celebrated by many, including lawyers, journalists and even politicians. 195. BINDING PROSECUTOR AND WITNESS BY RECOGNISANCE. The Laws of Sierra Leone on the Sierra Leone Web. The Flag of which the design is described in paragraph (b) hereof is hereby declared to be the . 148. B. had the been sent by the said J. S. to S. P. for the said cloth, and that he, the said A. Copies of lists to be sent to Sheriff. If the Attorney-General is of the opinion that there is in any case committed for trial any material or necessary witness other than those mentioned in the depositions, the prosecutor may call the witness before the trial Court upon giving to the Registrar of the Court and to the accused notice of his intention to do so together with a summary of the evidence to be given by the witness. (1) The superintendent of a mental hospital, prison or other place in which any person (hereinafter referred to as a criminal lunatic) is detained by virtue of an order made under section 71 or section 73, shall make a report to the Minister which shall be accompanied by a report by a medical practitioner at such times (not being less than once a year) and containing such particulars as the Minister may require, of the conditions and circumstances of every criminal lunatic in such mental hospital prison or place; and the Minister shall, at least once in every three years during which a criminal lunatic is detained in any mental hospital, prison or other place, consider the condition, history and circumstances of such criminal lunatic and determine whether he ought to be discharged absolutely or conditionally or otherwise dealt with. Offences by public officers abroad and offences on aircraft. Procedure where witnesses for defence not present. 107. 140. (2) Every constable acting under this section shall before entering any premises by virtue of subsection (1) deliver or offer to deliver to the owner or occupier a statement in writing signed by him to the effect that he is entering the premises because he has reasonable grounds to believe that there is a stranger thereon. The Laws of Sierra Leone on the Sierra Leone Web. THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at a session of the Supreme Court held before Mr. Justice aton the..day of..19.. ..(name of prisoner) was duly convicted of murder and sentenced to suffer death. B. has been twice previously convicted of an offence under section 22 of the Malicious, Damage Act, 1861, namely, at.on theday of..At theon the..day. Power of dispenses with personal attendance of accused. Where at any stage of a trial the Court is of the opinion that the accused or the defendant may be prejudiced or embarrassed in his defence by reason of being charged with more than one offence in the same information or that for any other reason it is desirable to direct that the accused should be tried separately for any one or more offences charged in one information the Court may order a separate trial of any offence or offences charged therein. To..(Officer), WHEREAS..(name of accused) of.(Address) was brought before me aton, theday of.19charged with the offence, of(statement of offence) committed at.in the. concerning E. F. in the form of a letter, book, pamphlet picture, or as the case may be. Judge only may authorize search in Post and Telegraph Offices. (1) A person who alleges that an enactment or anything contained in or done under the authority of that or any other enactment is inconsistent with, or is in contravention of a provision of this Constitution, may at any time bring an action in the Supreme Court for a declaration to that effect. 7. Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested. (2)The Judge may act on the application of any party interested after due notice to all other interested parties. 19.. To all to whom these presents shall come: I,..Governor-General of Sierra Leone send greeting. The agreement stipulates that the RSCSL shall have its principal seat in Freetown,but shall carry . 10 2011 Sierra Leone The Local Courts Act, 2011. (1) A corporation may be charged either alone or jointly with another person with an offence triable on indictment or triable summarily before a Magistrate's Court. When a person is charged with murder he may, if the evidence so warrants, be acquitted of murder and convicted of manslaughter although he was not charged with that offence. A. B, well knowing that one H. C. did on the..day Western Area..of..at.in the, .Province of Sierra Leone murder C. D., did on the.Day ofat..in the West Area, of Sierra Leone and onProvince. (2) The Minister may by order absolutely discharge any criminal lunatic and may also discharge any criminal lunatic conditionally, that is to say, on such conditions as to the duration of such discharge and otherwise as the Minister may think fit. Provided that (a) where any rule of law or any Act or statute limits the particulars of an offence which are required to be given in an information or indictment, nothing in this rule shall require any more particulars to be given than those so required. WHEREAS at a preliminary investigation held by me into a charge of.preferred against, ..(name of accused) I committed the, said..(name of accused) for trial by the Supreme Court Upon the said charge and. The Laws of Sierra Leone on the Sierra Leone Web The Local Courts (Amendment) Act, 1965 ASSENTED to in Her Majesty's name this 1st day of October, 1965. the offence of.and I consider it advisable to adjourn the examination into the said charge: Now these are to command you to receive the saidinto your custody and safely to keep him and, produce him before me at.at.m, or theday of, .19and hereafter from time to time as may be notified to you by. The person accused of any offence may be convicted of attempt. B. and C. D., in H.S. before the Supreme Court unless in the meantime you receive other directions as to his disposal. 12. When a warrant of arrest is executed outside the local limits of the jurisdiction of the Court issuing the warrant, the person arrested shall, unless the Court which issued the warrant is within twenty miles of the place of arrest or is nearer than the Court within whose jurisdiction the arrest was made, be taken before such last-mentioned Court which shall deal with him in the same way as if brought before it under section 37. 2. 50. WHEREAS.(name of accused) has the day appeared before me charged with. 0000010728 00000 n Immediately after the accuses shall so have had opportunity of making his answer to the charge, the Court shall ask him whether he desires to give evidence on his own behalf and whether he desires to call any witnesses, and the evidence of the accused together with the depositions of such witnesses as the accused shall call, and who shall appear on his behalf, shall then be taken in like manner as in the case of the witnesses for the prosecution. A. Payment out of money paid into court under the Exchange Control Act 10. (1) Where any person is convicted of having stolen or otherwise obtained any property dishonestly by means of any felony or misdemeanour, the Court convicting him may. (3)All criminal trials in which a plea has been taken at the commencement of this Act shall be inquired into and dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Acts hereby repealed. Any warrant so endorsed shall have the like effect as any warrant issued under subsection (1). 29. b. in the case of a petition, after the expiration of forty-two days from the date of the decision of the Court of Appeal, and if, within the appropriate time allowed, any such notice is given or petition is made, the sentence shall not be executed until the appeal or petition is finally rejected or the application for leave to appeal is finally refused, as the case may be. In case of refusal may be imprisoned. During an adjournment the Court may in its discretion, according to the nature and circumstances of each case and subject to the provision of section 79, either suffer the accused or defendant to go at large or commit him by warrant to such prison or other place of security, or to such other safe custody as the Court thinks fit, or may discharge him on his entering into a recognizance with or without a surety or sureties. And I want you to understand clearly that you have nothing to hope from any promise of favour, and nothing to fear from any threat which may have been held out to you to induce you to make any admission or confession of your guilt. 131. is entered, and if he has been committed to prison shall be released or if on bail his recognisances shall be discharged; but such discharge of an accused person shall not operate as a bar to any subsequent proceedings against him on account of the same facts. in Province from S. p. five yards of cloth by falsely pretending that he, the said A. 4, pp. . 176. Postponement of trial, recognisances. The Court before asking the accused in pursuance of section 6 of the Courts Act, 1965, whether he consents to the case being heard and finally determined summarily, shall explain to him the difference between the case being dealt with summarily and in the usual course. (1) No indictment shall be signed or filed in respect of any criminal offence unless there has been a committal for trial consequent upon a previous preliminary investigation in accordance with the provisions of Part III or an enquiry or inquest held in accordance with the provisions of the Coroners Act, except in the case of indictments which by law may be preferred by the direction of, or with the consent in writing of, a Judge, and, in the case of informations known as ex-officio informations, by the Attorney-General: Provided that where the accused has been committed for trial the indictment may include either in substitution for or in addition to counts charging the offence for which he was committed, any counts founded on facts or evidence disclosed in the depositions being counts which may be lawfully joined in the same indictment. (2) If the accused is undergoing imprisonment, a warrant to bring him before the Court may be directed to the Keeper of any prison within which the accused is confined. 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". (2) Every such warrant shall state shortly the offence with which the person against whom it is issued is charged and shall name or otherwise describe such person and it shall order the person or persons to whom it is directed to apprehend the person against whom it is issued and bring him before the Court issuing the warrant or before some other court having jurisdiction in the case to answer to the charge therein mentioned and to be further dealt with. 11 of 2006. Similar Judgments. Without prejudice to the provisions of any enactment, all criminal offences shall be enquired into, tried and otherwise dealt with according to the provisions of this Act. (1) ) Every person by pleading generally the plea of "not guilty" shall, without further form, be deemed to have put himself upon his trial, and in any plea of. Any person, who on any examination on oath under any of the provisions of this Act willfully and corruptly give false evidence, shall be guilty of perjury. (1) Subject to the provisions of rules made under section 50, charges for more than one felony or for more than one misdemeanour, and charges for both felonies and misdemeanours may, if those charges are founded on the same facts or form or are a part of a series of offences of the same or a similar character, be joined in the same complaint, information or indictment and tried at the same time, but where under the provisions of this section a felony is tried together with a misdemeanour in the Supreme Court, then if the trial is with a jury, the jury shall be sworn and the person accused shall have the same right of challenging jurors as if all the offences charged in the indictment were felonies. One of the sections so applied is 14 which imposes restrictions on, and relief against, forfeiture of leases. Internacionales CompetenCia en el merCado global 8e Negocios Internacionales CompetenCia en el merCado global. 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