CENTER FOR LAWS OF NIGERIA: RULES OF COURTS
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CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL PRACTICE DIRECTION, 2017
EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
[This note does not form part of this Practice Direction but intends to explain its purport]
This Practice Direction reflects and supplements certain provision in the Code of Conduct Tribunal Rules of Procedures and the Administrative of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 to ensure that the Code of Conduct Tribunal is accessible, fair and efficient and to provide general guidance and their legal representatives in order to speedily dispense and save the time and costs of all parties in any matter before the Tribunal.
CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL PRACTICE DIRECTION 2017
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1. Objective and Guiding Principles
2. Application
3. Applications to Prefer Charge
4. Arraignment
5. Pre-hearing Procedures
6. Service of Processes on Parties
7. Notices
8. Scheduling of Trial or Hearing Dates
9. Self-representation
10. Hearing and Proceedings of the Tribunal
11. The Conduct of Trials, Generally.
12. Seizures
13. Motions and Other Applications
14. Filing of Written Address
15. Scope of Application and Procedural Steps
16. Sentencing Hearing
17. Category of offence
18. Starting point and category range
19. Aggravating and mitigating factors
20. Totality principle
21. Confiscation, forfeiture, compensation, restitution and ancillary orders
22. Reasons for sentence decision
23. Reporting of proceedings of the Tribunal
24. Drawing up of Orders
25. Enlargement of Time
26. Filing fees
27. Saving
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CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNAL PRACTICE DIRECTION, 2017
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[16 February, 2017] [Commencement]
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In exercise of the inherent powers of the Tribunal and by virtue of all other powers enabling the Tribunal in that behalf, the Tribunal hereby issues the following Practice Direction for the Code of Conduct Tribunal –
1. Objective and Guiding Principles
The objectives of this Practice Direction are to –
(a) establish a system of case management that will provide for a fair, speedy and impartial administration of justice;
(b) ensure that at trials the parties focus on matters which are genuinely in issue and avoid objections aimed at delaying fair trial;
(c) ensure that cases are fully ready for trial before trial dates are appointed;
(d) minimise undue adjournments and delays;
(e) ensure that trials are not delayed by the hearing and determination of interlocutory applications; and
(f) ensure transparent and fair sentencing of convicted persons.
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RULES OF THE CODE OF CONDUCT TRIBUNALS
Code of Conduct Practice Directions 2017
Rules of Procedure of the Code of Conduct Tribunal
Code of Conduct Bureau and Tribunal Act
Schedule V of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
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