criminal law

Table of Topics

• Introduction
• history & sources of nigerian criminal law
• the context of the criminal law
• the legal elements of an offence
• crimes distinguished from civil wrongs
• classification of offences/crimes
• inchoate offences/preliminary offences
• burden of proof and general defences
• party to a crime/offence
• strict liability offences
• homicide -- general
• unlawful homicide -- specific offences (murder)
• assaults - (non-sexual assaults)
• aggravated sexual assault (rape)
• unnatural offences
• defamation
• bigamy
• incest
• stealing, demanding with menaces, robbery, burglary & house-breaking
• forgery and fraudulent false accounting
• false pretences, cheating, obtaining credit by fraud
• receiving stolen property and unlawful possession
• treason, sedition, disclosure of official secrets
• unlawful assembly, seditious meeting, riot, affray
• corruption
• perjury