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CHAPTER 91
PART VI
PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
157. (1) The following special pleas, and no others, may be pleaded, that is to say, a plea of autrefois acquit, a plea of autrefois convict, a plea of pardon, and such plea of justification in cases of defamatory libel as is hereafter in this Code mentioned.
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