• For simple offences e.g. threatening violence, obtaining money by false pretence, malicious damage to property etc, this is done in the magistrate’s courts where the accused is being tried.
• For serious offences e.g. murder, rape, defilement, aggravated robbery, the accused applies for bail in the high court.

• A person stops being a surety when the court allows a person to stop performing the duties of a surety.
• One can stop being a surety if he applies to the court to be allowed to stop standing surety for the accused or the suspect.
• If the accused has been convicted or acquitted.

Bail is where an accused person is released from prison before their trial but that person is required to come to court on the days when their case will be heard.