Nigeria

Criminal Code Act - Chapter 77

Part 1
Introductory
Interpretation: Application: General Principles

Chapter 5
Criminal Responsibility

26. Subject to the express provisions of this code relating to acts done upon compulsion or provocation or in self-defence, a person is not criminally responsible for an act done or omission made under such circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency that an ordinary person possessing ordinary power of self-control could not reasonably be expected to act otherwise.

Keywords

Self-defence - national proceedings
Duress - national proceedings



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