BORA Criminal Procedure Bill [pdf, 88 KB]
...building block of the criminal justice process and a basic safeguard of civil liberty in our legal system. The fundamental purpose of the double jeopardy rule is to protect individuals against the excessive use of state power: the state, with all its resources and powers, should not be allowed to continually subject an individual to repressive and repeated prosecutions by the state. A citizen, once tried, is entitled to the comfort of knowing that once acquitted of an offence that is th...