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Advantages of summary trial

Conditions for summary trial by virtue of a First Information Report

First Information Report

7 subsidiary principles

Meaning and nature of summary trial

Procedure for summary trial under Sections 156 and 157 of the Criminal Procedure Code

Purpose of summary trials

The difference between summary trial and trial on information

The extent of the power of the Attorney-General to cause any offence which is not one punishable by death or by imprisonment for life or which is not declared by any enactment to be a first-degree felony to be tried summarily

The import of Section 33 of the Federal High Court Act vis-a-vis the provisions under Section 277 of the Criminal procedure Act as it relates to offences that are to be tried summarily

The procedure for summary trial

What summary trial entails

When summary trial would be adopted

Whether a first degree felony can be tried summarily

Whether an accused person being tried summarily will have a fair trial

Whether an accused person in a summary trial is entitled to full disclosure of documents in the possession of prosecution that would not even be tendered by the prosecution as exhibits before a trial court

Whether an accused person in a summary trial is entitled to pre-trial disclosures

Whether a summary trial is meant to exclude an accused person

Whether, in a summary trial, a defendant can be called upon to make a defence where no case is made out against him by the prosecution

Whether punishment by the High Court or the Circuit Court is limited in the same respect as a District Court in its trial of summary offences

Whether the attachment of a proof of evidence to a charge sheet is part of summary trial proceedings

Whether the attachment of proof of evidence to a charge sheet is part of summary trial proceedings

Whether the attachment of proof of evidence to a charge sheet is part of summary trial proceedings in the Federal High Court

Whether the court can proceed to summary trial on the confessional statement of an accused person

Whether there is a special provision for the evaluation of evidence in summary trials

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