2010 ED] CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES [CAP 167   (8) A person who is detained has the right to take proceedings before the Supreme Court in order that the Court may decide on the lawfulness of the detention and order the release of the person if the detention is not lawful. (9) Proceedings under clause (8) shall be dealt with as a matter of urgency by the Supreme Court and shall take priority over other proceedings of the Court listed for hearing on that day. (10) A person who has been unlawfully arrested or detained has a right to receive compensation from the person who unlawfully arrested or detained that person or from any other person or authority, including the State on whose behalf or in the course of whose employment the unlawful arrest or detention was made or from both of them. (11) A person who has not been convicted of an offence, if kept or confined in a prison or place of detention, shall not be treated as a convicted person and shall be kept away from any convicted person. (12) An offender or a suspect who is a minor and who is kept in lawful custody or detention shall be kept separately from any adult offender of suspect. (13) A female offender or suspect who is kept in lawful custody or detention shall be kept separately from any male offender or suspect. (14) Where a person is convicted of any offence, any period which the person has spent in custody in respect of the offence shall be taken into account by the court in imposing any sentence of imprisonment for the offence. (15) A person shall not be imprisoned merely on the ground of the inability to fulfill a contractual obligation. (16) Clause (15) shall not limit the powers of a court under any law in enforcing is orders.                                                                     20