The ACJ Act 2015, Plea Bargain and Other Innovations: A ReviewTowards Peaceful Resolution in Nigeria
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Date
2016
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Kampala International University ISSN: 2415084-3; 1(2): 257-275
Abstract
There has been much agitation for a total overhaul of the laws regulating
administration of criminal justice in Nigeria. Thus, the signing into law of the
Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 was in response to the calls for the
reform of the Nigerian criminal justice system. The various laws that govern the
criminal justice system were dearly in need of amendment because they were no
longer in tune with the reality of time in criminal justice system and the trend of
criminal justice administration in the world and, indeed Nigeria. This article seeks
to attempt an analysis of the Act in other to point out the salient innovations in the
Act, with particularly reference to the inclusion of plea bargain as an ADR
Mechanism and the need for a continuous reform.