Malawi

Criminal procedure and evidence code

PART VII
PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE SUBORDINATE COURTS

252A. Rules relating to plea bargaining

(1) The Chief Justice may make rules that shall permit parties to enter into plea bargaining where appropriate.

(2) For the purposes of this section “plea bargaining” means the process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval and it includes —

(a) the defendant pleading guilty to a lesser offence ; or
(b) the defendant pleading guilty to only one or more counts of a charge.

Keywords

National proceedings on admission of guilt



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