(2) Where property is retained in court pending an appeal on application by release of summons any Judge of the Court to which an appeal has been made or in which notice of leave to appeal has been entered, may if he considers that the property is not necessary for the determination of the questions raised in the appeal order the property or any part thereof to be returned to the person who appears to him to be entitled thereto. Power to search for strangers in Diamond Protection Areas. 7. By Major (Retired) Dr. Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh Sierra Leone's Parliament on 23 July 2020 amended The Public Order Act of 1965, (the Act No.46 of 1965). 241. (3) Nothing in this section gives a right to cause the death of any person except when a constable or private person is legally attempting to arrest the person killed, upon a charge or treason, felony or inflicting a dangerous wound and the arrest of such person cannot otherwise be accomplished. 59. The Sheriff and Keeper and Chaplain of the Prison or other minister of religion and such other person present (if any) as the Sheriff requires or allows shall also sign a declaration in duplicate to the effect that judgment of death has been executed on the offender. DATED this.day of.19.. "(I authorise the execution of this warrant at any time. The fact that the indictment has been so signed shall be equivalent to a statement that all conditions required by law to constitute the offence charged, and to give the Court jurisdiction, have been fulfilled in the particular case. (2) ) In this section "petition" means a motion or petition for special leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council and includes, where appropriate, any application relating to such motion or petition. 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. 101. 10. 82. 112 of 1984] Acts Nos. 43. 192. If the accused states that he has witnesses to call, but that they are not present in Court, and the Court is satisfied that the absence of the witnesses is not due to any fault of the accused, and that there is a likelihood that they could, if present, give material evidence on his behalf, the Court may adjourn the investigation and issue process, or take other steps, to compel the attendance of such witnesses. (1) At the close of the evidence for the prosecution and after the statement of the accused person before the committing Court has been put in evidence the Court shall in cases where the accused is not defended by counsel inform him of his right to address the Court, to give evidence on his own behalf of to make an unsworn statement and to call witnesses in his defence and in all cases shall require him or his counsel to state whether it is intended to call any witness as to fact other than the accused person himself. (b) Nothing in this Act shall affect a case where the wife or husband of a person charged with an offence may at common law be called as a witness, without the consent of that person. 78. (a) a Judge may on the application of the prosecutor, direct a Law Officer to sign the indictment and the indictment shall be signed accordingly; b.the provisions of this section shall not be construed so as to derogate from the powers conferred upon the Attorney-General by section 44 of this Act or section 73 of the Constitution. In the event of the accused giving his consent to the case being dealt with summarily, the Court shall call upon him to plead to the information, and forthwith inform him of his right to recall all or any of the witnesses for the prosecution, who shall have been heard, and to subject them to any further cross-examination. B. and C.D. (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. The Sheriff shall cause to be delivered to the Registrar of the Court a panel containing the names, occupations and places of residence of the persons so summoned, a copy of which shall be affixed by the Registrar in the Court Hall. (1) The description of property in a count in an information or indictment shall be in ordinary language, and such as to indicate with reasonable clearness the property referred to and if the property is so described it shall not be necessary, except when required for the purpose of describing an offence depending on any special ownership of property or special value of property, to name he person to whom the property belongs or the value of the property. 214. Trials in the Magistrates' Courts shall be conducted summarily in the manner and subject to the conditions laid, 93. 4. Resumption of trial or investigation. Being an Act to provide for the establishment and operation of Local Courts, the administration of justice in the provinces and for other related matters. period of years, or in such other prison as the Governor-General shall from time to time direct, and subject to the prison rules for the time being in force. (7) Subject to any other provisions of these rules, it shall be sufficient describe any place, thing, matter, act or omission whatsoever to which it is necessary to refer in any information or indictment on ordinary language in such a manner as to indicate with reasonable clearness the place, time, thing, matter, act omission referred to. otherwise directed by me, he may be released. 116. Section 4 of the Local Courts Act is hereby amended as follows, a)by the insertion immediately after the word "Vice-President" in line 2 of subsection (1) thereof of the words "or Vice-Presidents where he considers it necessary to appoint more than one"; and. in order that. (1) At the close of the evidence for the defence, or, where it is sought to rebut evidence of good character, after evidence of good character has been given, the Court may, in its discretion, grant the prosecutor leave to call rebutting evidence where something has arisen ex improviso, in the course of the defence. Re-opening of preliminary investigations. Death sentence not to be passed on pregnant woman. (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. Any person charged with a criminal offence not punishable by death may at the time of being committed or referred fir trial by the Supreme Court, or at any time thereafter up to two clear days at least before the trial of such person, elect to be tried by a Judge alone and if any person so elects he shall be tried by a Judge alone instead of being tried by a Judge and Jury and in every such trial by a Judge alone, the Judge shall record in writing his decisions and reasons therefore. ORDER 9 PETITIONS-GENERAL PROVISIONS 1. Variance between charge and evidence. B., on the..day of.at.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, uttered a certain forged will. (1) A description of the offence charged in an information or indictment or where more than one offence is so charged, of each offence so charged, shall be set out in the information or indictment in a separate paragraph called a count. (5) When a person is charged with obtaining any chattel, money or valuable security by false pretences with intent to defraud and it is proved that he stole the property in question, he may be convicted of stealing it although he was not charged with that offense. Sierra Leone, enacting jurisdiction. 147. Courts Act,1965. (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. (1) The provisions of section 145 shall not deprive a person of his rights under section 144 to change his election and a person who has elected to be tried by a Judge alone may afterwards elect to be tried by the Court with aid of assessors if he changes his election before the time allowed by that section has expired, otherwise his change of election shall have no effect; and in the case of persons who are charged jointly, if they have all elected in accordance with section 145 to be tried by a Judge alone, they shall be so tried unless they all change their election in accordance with this section. the said..shall be forthwith set a liberty. where the deposition is that of a witness whose attendance at the trial is stated to be unnecessary as aforesaid, that the witness has been duly notified that he is required to attend the trial. (1) The constable or other person making an arrest may take from the person arrested any offensive weapons which he has about his person, or anything found in his possession likely to afford material evidence for the prosecution in respect of the offensive weapons which he has about his person, or anything found in his possession likely to afford material evidence for the prosecution in respect of the offence for which the offender has been arrested. 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. Section 7 of the Courts Act, 1965 is amended by the repeal and replacement of subsection (1) thereof by the following:- 7. Spanish has been an official language in Puerto Rico since it was first colonized by Spain in the 15th century. 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. Decision of Court and assessors to have same effects as finding of jury. The Mayor of Freetown, Paramount Chiefs and Chairman of Town Councils and of other local authorities; viii. Sierra Leone Legal System Outline - Njala University, School of Social Sciences and Law, Department - Studocu The Module introduces student to Sierra Leone Legal System which entails the court systems, court procedures etc. Any person charged with a criminal offence at any session of the Supreme Court shall, a.if such criminal offence is punishable by death be tried by the court with a jury consisting of twelve men; or, b. (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. Every sentence of death shall direct that the person condemned shall be hanged by the neck until he is dead, but shall not state the place of execution. The Act was amended by the : The Sierra Leone Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2006. 156. 2 of 1984 13 of 1986 10 of 1989 4 of 1991 27 of 1991 3 of 1992 2 of 1996 13 of 1996 17 of 1996 (4)Any person who shall refuse to submit to the taking and recording of his photographs, measurements, thumbprints or fingerprints shall be taken before a Magistrate who, on being satisfied that such person has been prosecuted and charged before any court with an offence involving fraud, dishonesty or violence or is reasonably suspected of having made a thumbprint or fingerprint likely to become an exhibit in a criminal case, shall make such order as he thinks fit, authorising a constable to take the measurements, photographs, thumbprints and fingerprints of such person. 19. E-Book Overview. means of an advertisement inserted by them, the said A. In the.Court at. Be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with P.N. 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. (2) In every such case any sum of money due may be levied on the goods and chattels of the person ordered to pay the same by distress and sale under warrant; and in all cases in which a warrant of distress is issued by the Court under this section the Court may either suffer such person, to go at large or verbally, or by warrant in that behalf, order him to be kept in custody until return shall be made to the warrant of distress. 163. (Public Seal) Governor. (5)A search warrant shall ordinarily be executed between the hours of five o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock at night, but the Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace issuing the same may by an order endorsed thereon, give authority for its execution at any other time. (2) Where the accused is not defended by counsel but states that he intends to call witness (other than himself) as to the facts, the Court shall call upon him to open his case if he so desires. Pursuant to the Employers and Employed Act, Chapter 212, modifies damages court may award in the case of an employment contract breach. In the case of the inability of the Magistrate from any cause to perform the duties and to exercise the powers and authorities conferred by this Act, the Chief Justice may, from time to time, appoint in writing any other person to perform the said duties and to exercise the said powers and authorities. 85. a.any person who in his presence commits a felony; b.any person whom he suspects of having committed a felony, if such felony had actually been committed and such private person has reasonable grounds to believe that the person arrested has committed that felony; c.any person offering to sell, pawn or deliver any property which such private person has reasonable grounds to believe to be stolen property; d.any person about to commit an act which would manifestly endanger another person's life; e. any person detaining or suspected of detaining any other person with the intent to kidnap or unlawfully remove him from Sierra Leone. 189. "Civil Marriage" means a marriage which is recognized by the law of the place where it is contracted as the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others; "husband and wife" means a husband and wife of a Civil marriage, as defined in this section; "Mohammedan Marriage" means a marriage entered into and subsisting between persons professing the Mohammedan faith which is valid according to Mohammedan Law or registered under the Mohammedan Marriage Act or any law governing the registration of such marriage in any other country. Download as pdf. A person, who has been once tried for an offence and convicted or acquitted of such offence, shall not be liable to be tried against on the same facts for the same offence or any other offence of which he could have been lawfully convicted at the first trial, unless a retrial is ordered by a Court having power to do so. 2. Part 1 contains general provisions. (4)If in any case in which the attendance of defendant is dispensed with under this section, previous convictions are alleged against him and are not admitted in writing, the court may adjourn the proceedings and direct the personal attendance of the defendant and, if necessary, enforce such attendance in manner hereinafter provided. 168. Section 4 of the Local Courts Act is hereby amended as follows. Interpretation 2 In these rules: "Act" means The Court of Appeal Act, 2000; "application" includes a motion; "court" means the Court of Appeal; "court appealed from" includes, where appropriate, a tribunal; 54. 61. (3)In this section the expression "superintendent" includes the Medical Superintendent of a mental hospital. 39. ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT 11. General authority of Courts to bring accused persons before them. 72. he has personally or by his advocate asked questions of the witnesses for the prosecution with a view to establishing his own good character, or has given evidence of his good character, or the nature or conduct of the defence is such as to invite imputations on the character of the prosecutor or the witnesses for the prosecution; or. (1) Every information or indictment shall contain, and shall be sufficient if it contains, a statement of the specific offence or offences with which the accused is charged, together with such particulars as may be necessary for giving reasonable information as to the nature of the charge. 19.. To all to whom these presents shall come: I,..Governor-General of Sierra Leone send greeting. A person convicted or acquitted of any act causing consequences, which together with such act constitute a different offence from that for which such person was convicted or acquitted, may be afterwards tried for such l mentioned offence, if the -consequences had not happened or were not known to the Court to have happened at time when he was acquitted or convicted. (1) After the examination of the witnesses called on behalf of the prosecution, and provided that the Court does not consider that the case should be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of section 118, the Court shall address the accused as follows, "The charge (or charges) is (or are).(read the charge or charges). 226. 216. 206. to be given to the keeper of the prison in which such accused may be detained, and also shall forthwith cause a similar notice in writing to be given to any witnesses bound over to prosecute and to their sureties (if any), and also to the accused and his sureties in case he shall have been admitted to bail. (1) When any person is convicted of an offence and the facts constituting the offence amount also to a tort against the person or property of the prosecutor, the Court before which such person is convicted may, on the application of the prosecutor and after taking any such further evidence as it deems necessary, order the person convicted to pay the prosecutor such sum as appears to the Court to be reasonable compensation (not exceeding in the case of a summary conviction one thousand Leones) in addition to or in lieu of any other punishment. %PDF-1.3 % A search warrant issued by a Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace in the Western Area, or by a Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace in any district in the Provinces, for the discovery of any property stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained may be executed in any part of the Western Area, or in any district of the Provinces, although such part or district is outside the jurisdiction of the Court, Judge, Magistrate or Justice of the Peace issuing the said warrant, and in every case in which any property alleged to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained is seized in pursuance of this section, it shall be lawful for the constable or other person to whom the search warrant was directed, without any special authority in that behalf, to arrest the person on whose premises the property was at the time of seizure, or the person from whom it was taken, if other than the person on whose premises it was, and take him before the Court within whose jurisdiction the seizure was made, to account for his possession of such property; and in every such case the Court before whom such person shall be brought shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the matter notwithstanding that the alleged offence was committed outside the jurisdiction of the said Court. (2)When the true name and place of resident have been ascertained he shall be released on his executing a bond, with or without sureties, to appear before a court if so required. B., on heday of..at.in the Western Area of Sierra Leone, being clerk or servant to. HWnI}GXA !*#@x0@)H#sd>O{lT|9tdz>NO%y%w:2#22o}|.V7[Nd3Vipk[l1F8eY \=\iY=efO& q3|Zfqz{Ml' 'e^@1@~&Vs/ uG\$KP\ Discharge of persons detained under section 215. I hereby declare myself surety/We hereby jointly and severally declare ourselves sureties for the above-, named..ofthat he will attend in the..Court, aton the .day ofnext to answer to the above-. Deposition of medical practitioner may be read as evidence. (1) A corporation that is convicted of an offence is liable, in lieu of any imprisonment that is prescribed as the punishment for that offence, or where no fine is Prescribed, a.to be fined in an amount that is in the discretion of the Court where the offence is triable on indictment; or. Nothing in sections 30 and 31 shall authorise any person, other than a Judge, to grant a warrant to search for a document in the custody of the Postal or Telegraph authorities or of any Telegraph Company. B., on the..day of.atin the Western Area of Sierra Leone, with intent to defraud, forged. (1) Where any person, other than a person liable to be arrested without a warrant, who has been accused of committing an offence refuses on demand of a constable to give his name and place of residence, or gives a name or place of residence which the constable has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested by the constable in order that his name and place of residence may be ascertained. 4. (3)Such constable as aforesaid shall enter in a book, kept for that purpose in every police station in the Western Area and lock-up in the Provinces, the name, residence and occupation of the person entering into recognisance, and of his surety or sureties, if any, with the condition of the recognisance, and the sums deposited or acknowledged. In theCOURT AT To.(Keeper of Prison or constable). 42. (1) The substance of the charge shall be stated to the accused, or defendant and he shall be asked if he admits or denies the truth of the charge. (1) Where an enactment constituting an offence states the offence to be the doing or the omission to do any one of any different acts in the alternative, or the doing or the omission to any act in any one of any different capacities, or with any one of any different intentions, or states any part of the offence in the alternative, the acts, omissions, capacities or intentions, or other matters stated in the alternative in the enactment, may be stated in the alternative in the count charging the offence. Whenever any preliminary investigation or trial is postponed under sections 71 or 134, the Court may at any time resume the preliminary investigation or trial and require the accused to appear or be brought before such court, when, if the court considers him capable of making his defence, the preliminary investigation or trial shall proceed, but if the Court considers the accused to be still incapable of making his defence, the accused shall be dealt with as though the preliminary investigation or trial had not been resumed. 4, pp. (3)The statement shall not thereby become evidence of any facts alleged therein but the Judge and jury may take it into account in judging the credibility of the witness on his evidence as a whole and the prosecution and defence shall be entitled to refer to it in examining or cross-examining any witness and in addressing the Court. 139. 2. In addition to and independently of the facilities provided by section 30, it shall be lawful for any constable to detain any person carrying or conveying along any square, street, highway, quay or avenue or other public place any animal, matter or thing which such constable shall suspect of having been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or in respect of which he shall suspect that any criminal offence has been, is being or is about to be committed, and to examine any box, parcel, basket, bundle, or other package carried or conveyed by such person which he may reasonably suspect to contain any such animal, matter or thing as aforesaid; and if such person does not give a satisfactory account of himself and of any animal, matter or thing such examination may discover, to arrest such person and cause him to be taken before a Court as soon as practicable to be dealt with according to law. (ii) such person shall have elected or shall have been ordered to be tried by a Judge alone in accordance with the provisions of sections 145 and 144 respectively. 98. Contents of petition . that an accused person committed to the Supreme Court for trial instead of being tried at the place where he would but for the order have been tried, be tried by the Supreme Court at such other place as may be specified in the order. (3) Order for enlargement of bail, cancellation of bail, transfer to a bond, etc. No. Search warrants may be executed outside jurisdiction of Court issuing them in certain cases. Amendment of section 78 of 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. Legal practitioners in actual practice and all Court Officers; iv. 207. (2) If the accused or the defendant, as the case may be, is not before the Court when such, is entered, the Court shall forthwith cause notice in writing of the entry of such. (4) If the case is one in which bail may not be taken, or if sufficient security is not given, the Court shall report to the Minister who may order the accused to be confined in a mental hospital, prison or other suitable place of safe custody, and the Court shall issue a warrant in accordance with such order. The cancellation of a warrant may be effected by the Court issuing it, or by a Court to which such issuing Court is subordinate. iv. WHEREAS by section 70 of the Constitution it is ordained that the Governor-General may, in Her Majesty's name and on Her behalf, grant unto any offender convicted of any crime in any Court before any Judge or Magistrate within Sierra Leone a free pardon, or a pardon subject to such conditions as may at any time be lawfully thereunto annexed. Section 4 of the Local Courts Act is hereby amended as follows 56. 24. The room or place in which the investigation is held shall not be an open or . B., on theday ofin the Western Area of Sierra Leone published a defamatory libel. (4) Where, before trial upon indictment or at any stage of such trial, the Court is of opinion that the postponement of the trial of the accused is expedient as a consequence of the exercise of any power of the Court under this Act, the Court shall make such order as to the postponement of the trials as appears necessary. This form must be used when as offence with which the defendant is charged is punished only by a fine. Santigie Borbor Kanu (also known as Five-Five) (born March 1965) was a Sierra Leonean military commander in the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). xYlCaj0_ZqsC( OU*IyM/^OT@:qxKsbIS :EApc4N( Every challenge for cause, if objected to by the opposite party, shall be tried and determined by the Court without a jury, and the person challenged shall be examined on oath and shall be required to answer on oath, all lawful questions relating to the trial of the challenge. 125. exceeding twelve months and the Court by whom such person is convicted shall (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. Certificate required by section 141, Criminal Procedure Act 1965. (2) Where such evidence in rebuttal is given, counsel for the defence shall be entitled to comment on the evidence so given. Power to take offensive weapons or property of evidentiary value from arrested persons. (2) Where the Judge gives no directions for the recording of his summing up or of any direction given by him, he shall prepare a statement as soon as possible according to the best of his recollection and, for the purpose of preparing such statement, may consult any notes he may have made for his summing up or for any such direction. (5)A Judge may, if he thinks fit, admit any person to bail although the Court before whom the charge is pending has not thought fit to do so. When such special findings is made the Court shall order the accused or the defendant to be kept in custody as a criminal lunatic in such place and in such manner as the Court shall direct, and shall report the case for the order of the Minister. 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