Lesotho

Penal Code Act, 2010

PART II - GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY

Superior orders
18. (1) A person who is placed in authority over another person commits an offence if he or she issues orders that are clearly or manifestly illegal.

(2) It shall not be a defence to a criminal charge that the offence specified in the charge was carried out by the accused person while acting under the clearly or manifestly illegal orders of a superior placed in authority over him or her .

Keywords

Superior orders - national proceedings



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