CHAPTER III
PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
Article 20
Provisions to secure protection of law
(5) No person who shows that he has been tried by a competent court for a criminal offence and either convicted or acquitted shall again be tried for that offence or for any other criminal offence of which he could have been convicted at the trial for that offence, save upon the order of a superior court in the course of appeal or review proceedings relating to the conviction or acquittal.
(6) No person shall be tried for a criminal offence if he shows that he has been pardoned for that offence.
CHAPTER 91
PART IV
GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
77. A person who has been once tried by a court of competent jurisdiction for an offence and acquitted or convicted of such offence, while such acquittal or conviction has not been reversed or set aside, shall not be liable to be tried again on the same facts for the same offence.
CHAPTER 91
PART VI
PROCEDURE IN TRIALS BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT
157. (1) The following special pleas, and no others, may be pleaded, that is to say, a plea of autrefois acquit, a plea of autrefois convict, a plea of pardon, and such plea of justification in cases of defamatory libel as is hereafter in this Code mentioned.
BOOK I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE i
PRELIMINARY MATTERS
11. Saving of certain laws.
Provided that if a person does an act which is punishable under this Code, and is also punishable under another law of any of the kinds mentioned in this section, he shall not be punished for that act both under that law and also under this Code .
1. Except as provided in this Statute, no person shall be tried before the Court with respect to conduct which formed the basis of crimes for which the person has been convicted or acquitted by the Court.
2. No person shall be tried by another court for a crime referred to in article 5 for which that person has already been convicted or acquitted by the Court.
3. No person who has been tried by another court for conduct also proscribed under article 6, 7, 8 or 8 bis shall be tried by the Court with respect to the same conduct unless the proceedings in the other court:
(a) Were for the purpose of shielding the person concerned from criminal responsibility for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court; or
(b) Otherwise were not conducted independently or impartially in accordance with the norms of due process recognized by international law and were conducted in a manner which, in the circumstances, was inconsistent with an intent to bring the person concerned to justice.