CHAPTER FOUR—PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF FUNDAMENTAL AND OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.

General.

28. Right to a fair hearing.

(10) No person shall be tried for a criminal offence if the person shows that he or she has been pardoned in respect of that offence.

CHAPTER SIX—THE LEGISLATURE.

Prerogative of mercy.

121. Prerogative of mercy.

(4) The President may, on the advice of the committee—

(a) grant to any person convicted of an offence a pardon either free or subject to lawful conditions;

Article 17
Issues of admissibility
1. Having regard to paragraph 10 of the Preamble and article 1, the Court shall determine that a case is inadmissible where:
(b) The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute