A Lagos High Court has affirmed the power of the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice Adeniji Kazeem to file nolle prosequi in any case by the state. Nolle prosequi means an ...
General’s power to enter a nolle prosequi is recognised under sections 54 and 55 of the Criminal and Other Offences ...
The exercise of the power to enter nolle prosequi by an A.G. is subjective and not objective; The State vs Ilori supra as follows: “The test to be adopted under sub-section (3) of section 191 of the ...
According to him, the court order in Suit No. ABJ/CMC/CR/21/2015 was “blatantly ignored” by the Department of State Services (DSS). A former legal counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous ...
There are no apologies to the wrongly accused in Massachusetts — at best, they’re given a quick lesson in Latin, which typically leaves your everyday ?litigant scratching his head. “Nolle prosequi,” ...
“Nolle prosequi decisions can be subjected to motions. We will use our right against military court authorities. Depending on the result, we will exhaust all means of objection. Then we will have the ...
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